He Zijian, Li Yifan, Ye Yingying, Zhou Xiao
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2025 Dec;16(1):2478793. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2025.2478793. Epub 2025 Apr 2.
We aimed to elucidate the temporal relationship between perceived social support, emotional self-disclosure and posttraumatic growth (PTG) in children. The super typhoon Lekima occurred on August 10, 2019, in China. Three waves of self-report questionnaires were administered to children at 3 months (T1, = 1596), 15 months (T2, = 1072), and 27 months (T3, = 483) following the typhoon. The main analysis was based on data from 351 children who completed all three waves of assessment. We constructed cross-lagged panel models to examine temporal associations between perceived social support, emotional self-disclosure, and posttraumatic growth. Controlling for trauma exposure, age, gender, monthly income of family and parental marital status, results revealed that perceived social support at T1 and T2 was longitudinally related to emotional self-disclosure and PTG at T2 and T3. Emotional self-disclosure at T1 and T2 positively connected with perceived social support and PTG at T2 and T3. However, PTG did not relate to subsequent perceived social support. Mediation analyses revealed that perceived social support at T1 was positively connected with PTG at T3 through emotional self-disclosure at T2, and that emotional self-disclosure at T1 was positively connected with PTG at T3 through perceived social support at T2. These results demonstrated that perceived social support and emotional self-disclosure were mutually reinforcing, and both could facilitate PTG among children. Post-disaster psychological interventions could work to enrich social support resources and encourage children's emotional self-disclosure.
我们旨在阐明儿童感知到的社会支持、情感自我表露与创伤后成长（PTG）之间的时间关系。2019年8月10日，超强台风“利奇马”在中国登陆。在台风过后3个月（T1，n = 1596）、15个月（T2，n = 1072）和27个月（T3，n = 483），对儿童进行了三轮自陈式问卷调查。主要分析基于351名完成了全部三轮评估的儿童的数据。我们构建了交叉滞后面板模型，以检验感知到的社会支持、情感自我表露和创伤后成长之间的时间关联。在控制了创伤暴露、年龄、性别、家庭月收入和父母婚姻状况后，结果显示，T1和T2时感知到的社会支持与T2和T3时的情感自我表露及创伤后成长存在纵向关联。T1和T2时的情感自我表露与T2和T3时感知到的社会支持及创伤后成长呈正相关。然而，创伤后成长与随后感知到的社会支持并无关联。中介分析表明，T1时感知到的社会支持通过T2时的情感自我表露与T3时的创伤后成长呈正相关，且T1时的情感自我表露通过T2时感知到的社会支持与T3时的创伤后成长呈正相关。这些结果表明，感知到的社会支持和情感自我表露相互促进，且二者均可促进儿童的创伤后成长。灾后心理干预可致力于丰富社会支持资源并鼓励儿童进行情感自我表露。
