Chang Song, Zhang Yaohua, Wang Chunxu, Xu Fan, Huang Yunyun, Xin Sufei
College of Education, Ludong University, Yantai, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
Collaborative Innovation Center for the Mental Health of Youth from the Era of Conversion of New and Old Kinetic Energy along the Yellow River Basin, Yantai, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2024 Sep 24;17:3313-3326. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S462230. eCollection 2024.
The alleviating effects of a growth mindset on depression are promising. However, whether a growth mindset can attenuate the effect of low family socioeconomic status (SES) on depressive symptoms among adolescents remains unknown. Based on the Family Stress Model, the current study explores whether a growth mindset could moderate the associations between family SES, interparental conflict, and adolescent depressive symptoms.
The participants were 1572 Chinese adolescents ( = 13.35 years, = 1.16, 51.84% female). They completed the family SES questionnaire, Children's Perceptions of Interparental Conflict scale, Growth Mindset scale, and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale. We tested the moderation, mediation, and moderated mediation models using the SPSS macro program PROCESS.
A growth mindset moderated the association between family SES and depressive symptoms. Family SES was significantly related to depressive symptoms in adolescents with a lower growth mindset, but not in those with a higher growth mindset. After incorporating the mediating effect of interparental conflict, the growth mindset did not exert a significant moderating influence on the direct path; however, it significantly moderated the mediating effect of interparental conflict on depressive symptoms. Specifically, while a lower growth mindset in adolescents was associated with an increased risk of depressive symptoms due to interparental conflict, those with a higher growth mindset showed a less pronounced effect.
A growth mindset attenuates the link between family SES and depressive symptoms among adolescents. These findings highlight the benefits of a growth mindset on mental health, especially for low-SES adolescents.
成长型思维模式对抑郁症的缓解作用很有前景。然而，成长型思维模式是否能减弱家庭社会经济地位（SES）低下对青少年抑郁症状的影响仍不明确。基于家庭压力模型，本研究探讨成长型思维模式是否能调节家庭SES、父母间冲突与青少年抑郁症状之间的关联。
参与者为1572名中国青少年（平均年龄=13.35岁，标准差=1.16，51.84%为女性）。他们完成了家庭SES问卷、儿童对父母间冲突的认知量表、成长型思维模式量表以及流行病学研究中心抑郁量表。我们使用SPSS宏程序PROCESS测试了调节、中介和调节中介模型。
成长型思维模式调节了家庭SES与抑郁症状之间的关联。在成长型思维模式较低的青少年中，家庭SES与抑郁症状显著相关，但在成长型思维模式较高的青少年中则不然。纳入父母间冲突的中介作用后，成长型思维模式对直接路径没有显著的调节影响；然而，它显著调节了父母间冲突对抑郁症状的中介作用。具体而言，青少年成长型思维模式较低时，因父母间冲突导致抑郁症状的风险增加，而成长型思维模式较高的青少年则表现出较弱的影响。
成长型思维模式减弱了青少年家庭SES与抑郁症状之间的联系。这些发现凸显了成长型思维模式对心理健康的益处，尤其是对低SES青少年。
