School of Nursing, Peking University, 100191, China; Peking University Sixth Hospital, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, 100191, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Mental Health (Peking University), National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders (Peking University Sixth Hospital), 100191, China.
Peking University Sixth Hospital, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, 100191, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Mental Health (Peking University), National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders (Peking University Sixth Hospital), 100191, China.
Asian J Psychiatr. 2024 Mar;93:103939. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.103939. Epub 2024 Feb 5.
This study explored the complex triangular relationships between parenting styles, personality traits, and depressive trait in Chinese Han adults (N = 490; Mean age=24.25; 51.0% women), and examined the relationship between parenting styles and brain structure. The data indicated that depressive trait in adulthood were negatively correlated with a favorable parenting style (emotional warmth) and positively correlated with undesirable parenting styles (punishment, rejection, and overprotection/over-intervention). Additionally, depressive trait in adulthood were positively related to neuroticism and psychoticism, and negatively related to extraversion. Using a multiple parallel mediation analysis, we found that neuroticism could be worsened by undesirable parenting styles and ameliorated by favorable parenting styles, and it further mediated the relationship between parenting styles and depressive trait across all models. Psychoticism played a similar role in two models: 1) parental punishment and depressive trait and 2) parental rejection and depressive trait. Extraversion played a mediating role between the father's overprotection and depressive trait. Subgroup analysis showed that different mediating pathways existed between different sexes. In terms of brain structure, we found that gray matter volume of the right inferior frontal gyrus was negatively related to overprotection by the father and positively related to psychoticism. Our findings highlight the importance of parenting style on personality traits, depressive trait, and brain structure over the long term.
本研究探讨了中国汉族成年人（N=490；平均年龄=24.25 岁；女性占 51.0%）中父母教养方式、人格特质和抑郁特质之间的复杂三角关系，并检验了父母教养方式与大脑结构之间的关系。数据表明，成年期的抑郁特质与良好的父母教养方式（情感温暖）呈负相关，与不良的父母教养方式（惩罚、拒绝和过度保护/过度干预）呈正相关。此外，成年期的抑郁特质与神经质和精神质呈正相关，与外向性呈负相关。通过多重平行中介分析，我们发现不良的父母教养方式会加重神经质，而良好的父母教养方式会减轻神经质，神经质进一步中介了所有模型中父母教养方式与抑郁特质之间的关系。精神质在两个模型中扮演着类似的角色：1）父母的惩罚和抑郁特质，2）父母的拒绝和抑郁特质。外向性在父亲的过度保护与抑郁特质之间起中介作用。亚组分析表明，不同性别之间存在不同的中介途径。在大脑结构方面，我们发现右侧额下回的灰质体积与父亲的过度保护呈负相关，与精神质呈正相关。我们的研究结果强调了父母教养方式对人格特质、抑郁特质和大脑结构的长期影响。
