Jiang Xiaoliu, Zhang Kuo
Department of Social Psychology, School of Sociology, Nankai University, No. 38 Tongyan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin, China.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 May 23. doi: 10.1007/s10578-024-01719-w.
This study, grounded in the Process-Person-Context-Time framework, investigates the complex interplay of family environmental factors and their influence on adolescent depressive symptoms, focusing on the role of 'perceived stress'. Using network analysis, we examined data from 735 junior high students (52.1% female adolescents) from three provinces in China (Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan), with an average age of 13.81 ± 0.92 years, ranging from 12 to 16 years, exploring the relationships between depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and seven family risk factors. The analysis identified three distinct communities. The incorporation of perceived stress led to its integration into a community that included depressive symptoms, parental restrictive monitoring, and family economic strain. Perceived stress emerged as the strongest predictor of depressive symptoms, surpassing parental restrictive monitoring. Furthermore, it overtook depressive symptoms as the node with the strongest bridging connection within its community. These findings underscore the importance of interventions targeting both family conditions and the internal processing of these stressors by adolescents, especially in challenging family environments, to mitigate the risk of depression and promote resilience.
本研究基于“过程-人-情境-时间”框架，探讨家庭环境因素的复杂相互作用及其对青少年抑郁症状的影响，重点关注“感知压力”的作用。我们运用网络分析方法，对来自中国三个省份（江苏、山东和河南）的735名初中生（52.1%为女性青少年）的数据进行了研究，这些学生的平均年龄为13.81±0.92岁，年龄范围在12至16岁之间，旨在探究抑郁症状、感知压力与七个家庭风险因素之间的关系。分析确定了三个不同的群落。将感知压力纳入分析后，它被整合到一个包括抑郁症状、父母的限制监督和家庭经济压力的群落中。感知压力成为抑郁症状最强的预测因素，超过了父母的限制监督。此外，它在其群落中取代抑郁症状，成为具有最强桥接连接的节点。这些发现强调了针对家庭状况以及青少年对这些压力源的内部处理过程进行干预的重要性，尤其是在具有挑战性的家庭环境中，以降低抑郁风险并促进恢复力。
