Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
College of Teacher Education, Institute of Education Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, China.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2023 Mar 14;17:e352. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2022.300.
About a fourth of Chinese adolescents developed clinically significant depressive symptoms following a disaster. However, little is known about whether and how post-trauma negative life events and a sense of security are associated with depressive symptoms in this population. This study examined the psychological experiences of Chinese young people who had experienced the 2013 Ya'an earthquake in Sichuan, China.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2019. A total of 693 Chinese middle school students completed a questionnaire that measured their level of depressive symptoms, trauma exposure, stressful life events, and sense of security.
Results of hierarchical multiple-regression analyses showed that the level of life stress from stressful life events was positively associated with the level of depressive symptoms (β = 0.416, < 0.001) and the level of the sense of security was negatively associated with the level of depressive symptoms (β = -0.352, < 0.001) when analysis controlled for age, gender, and trauma exposure.
These findings highlight the importance of considering the influence of life stressors and the sense of security in devising measures and strategies for the prevention of the manifestation of depression among young people, particularly those who were exposed to disasters.
大约四分之一的中国青少年在灾难后出现了临床显著的抑郁症状。然而，对于创伤后负面生活事件和安全感是否以及如何与这一人群的抑郁症状相关，知之甚少。本研究调查了经历过 2013 年四川雅安地震的中国青少年的心理体验。
这是一项 2019 年进行的横断面研究。共有 693 名中国中学生完成了一份问卷，该问卷测量了他们的抑郁症状水平、创伤暴露、生活压力事件和安全感。
分层多元回归分析的结果表明，生活压力事件的生活压力水平与抑郁症状水平呈正相关（β=0.416，<0.001），安全感水平与抑郁症状水平呈负相关（β=-0.352，<0.001），当分析控制了年龄、性别和创伤暴露时。
这些发现强调了在制定预防年轻人，尤其是那些经历过灾难的年轻人抑郁表现的措施和策略时，考虑生活压力源和安全感的重要性。
