Department of Psychology, Normal School, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People's Republic of China.
Child Abuse Negl. 2024 Mar;149:106607. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106607. Epub 2023 Dec 27.
Childhood emotional abuse (CEA) has been identified as a distal risk factor for later depression in adolescents. However, the underlying psychological mechanisms between CEA and adolescent depression are still poorly understood.
This study aimed to explore the roles of rumination and resilience played in the association between CEA and depression among Chinese adolescents.
The sample included 919 students (52.56 % boys) with an average age of 13.47 years from a central province in China.
Participants completed multiple measurements of CEA, rumination, resilience, and depression. Multivariate path analysis was applied to examine the relations among these variables.
Results showed (a) CEA was significantly positively related to adolescent depression; (b) Rumination partially mediated the relationship between CEA and depression and moderated the relationship between resilience and depression; (c) Resilience partially mediated the relationship between CEA and depression and moderated the relationship between rumination and depression.
The results revealed that both rumination and resilience played not only mediating but also moderating roles in the relationship between CEA and depression among Chinese adolescent sample, suggesting that the indirect effects of CEA on depression via resilience and rumination are dependent on each other. Hence, these findings deepened the understanding of the psychological mechanisms between CEA and depression and had several practical implications.
童年期情感虐待（CEA）已被确定为青少年后期抑郁的远端风险因素。然而，CEA 和青少年抑郁之间的潜在心理机制仍知之甚少。
本研究旨在探讨沉思和韧性在 CEA 与中国青少年抑郁之间的关系中所起的作用。
该样本包括来自中国中部一个省份的 919 名学生（52.56%为男生），平均年龄为 13.47 岁。
参与者完成了多项 CEA、沉思、韧性和抑郁的测量。采用多元路径分析来检验这些变量之间的关系。
结果表明：（a）CEA 与青少年抑郁显著正相关；（b）沉思部分中介了 CEA 与抑郁之间的关系，并调节了韧性与抑郁之间的关系；（c）韧性部分中介了 CEA 与抑郁之间的关系，并调节了沉思与抑郁之间的关系。
研究结果表明，沉思和韧性不仅在 CEA 与中国青少年抑郁之间的关系中起到了中介作用，还起到了调节作用，这表明 CEA 通过韧性和沉思对抑郁的间接影响是相互依赖的。因此，这些发现深化了对 CEA 和抑郁之间心理机制的理解，并具有一定的实际意义。
