Pan Ye, Zhang Yifan, Ma Zijuan, Wang Dongfang, Ross Brendan, Huang Shuiqing, Fan Fang
School of Psychology, Centre for Studies of Psychological Applications, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Brain Cognition and Educational Science, South China Normal University, Shipai Road, Guangzhou, 510631, China.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2025 Apr;56(2):533-542. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01578-x. Epub 2023 Jul 29.
Past research suggests that offline and online social capital are empirically linked to adolescent psychological adjustment. However, little is known regarding the implications of distinctive combinations of social capital for adolescent internalizing symptoms. The present study aimed to examine adolescent social capital patterns and their associations with internalizing symptoms by using latent profile analysis. A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted among 1595 Chinese adolescents (mean age = 14.30 years, 50.7% male). All adolescents completed self-report questionnaires on their perceived offline and online social capital, depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms. Latent profile analysis revealed four profiles of social capital: (1) Low Social Capital, (2) Moderate Social Capital, (3) High Social Capital, and (4) Only High Offline Social Capital. Further, analysis of covariance demonstrated that the Only High Offline Social Capital profile had significantly fewer internalizing symptoms than other three profiles. No statistical differences of internalizing symptoms were found between the other three profiles, except that the Moderate Social Capital profile showed fewer anxiety symptoms than the Low Social Capital profile. These findings suggest that more social capital does not equal to better mental health status. The social capital profiles and their associations with adolescent internalizing symptoms may provide practitioners with meaningful implications regarding the role of offline and online social capital in adolescent psychological adjustment.
以往的研究表明，线下和线上社会资本在经验上与青少年的心理调适有关。然而，对于社会资本的不同组合对青少年内化症状的影响却知之甚少。本研究旨在通过潜在剖面分析来考察青少年的社会资本模式及其与内化症状的关联。对1595名中国青少年（平均年龄=14.30岁，50.7%为男性）进行了一项基于网络的横断面调查。所有青少年都完成了关于他们感知到的线下和线上社会资本、抑郁症状和焦虑症状的自我报告问卷。潜在剖面分析揭示了社会资本的四种类型：（1）低社会资本型，（2）中等社会资本型，（3）高社会资本型，以及（4）仅线下高社会资本型。此外，协方差分析表明，仅线下高社会资本型的内化症状明显少于其他三种类型。除了中等社会资本型的焦虑症状少于低社会资本型外，其他三种类型在内化症状方面没有发现统计学差异。这些发现表明，更多的社会资本并不等同于更好的心理健康状况。社会资本类型及其与青少年内化症状的关联可能会为从业者提供关于线下和线上社会资本在青少年心理调适方面作用的有意义的启示。
