Thakur Hena, Choi Jae Wan, Temple Jeff R, Cohen Joseph R
Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2025 May 28:1-11. doi: 10.1017/S0954579425100187.
Holistic frameworks of mental health outline that a focus on psychopathology does not represent an optimal approach to defining, measuring and treating mental health. Rather, theoretical, empirical, and applied psychological efforts should incorporate psychological well-being (PWB). Studies of PWB have overwhelmingly focused on adult populations, rendering a translation down to adolescence difficult. The current study explores the between-person, as well as within-person short-term, prospective relations between psychopathology and wellbeing within a community sample of adolescents (i.e., 553 youth aged 12 - 18, mean age: 14.97 years, 51.2% Male, 40.7% of participants identified as Hispanic (225 individuals), 38.5% identified as White (213 individuals), and 35.6% identified as Black (197 individuals), 3-wave, 1-year survey). Results demonstrated significant, negative between-person relations between psychopathology and PWB ( = -0.25, SE = 0.11, = 0.021, = -0.39, SE = 0.15, = 0.011). At the within-person level, consistent positive prospective relations were identified for violent-delinquent behaviors and PWB, such that increases in individual levels of violent-delinquent behaviors tended to forecast higher levels of PWB at the next follow-up ( = 0.21, SE = 0.076, < 0.01; = 0.14, SE = 0.051, < 0.01). At the within-person level, prospective relations between depressive and PWB were not identified. Gender and racial/ethnic identities did not moderate findings.
心理健康的整体框架指出，专注于精神病理学并非定义、衡量和治疗心理健康的最佳方法。相反，理论、实证和应用心理学方面的努力应纳入心理幸福感（PWB）。对心理幸福感的研究绝大多数集中在成年人群体上，因此很难将其转化应用于青少年群体。本研究在一个青少年社区样本（即553名12 - 18岁的青少年，平均年龄：14.97岁，51.2%为男性，40.7%的参与者为西班牙裔（225人），38.5%为白人（213人），35.6%为黑人（197人），进行为期一年的3波调查）中，探讨了精神病理学与幸福感之间的个体间以及个体内短期前瞻性关系。结果表明，精神病理学与心理幸福感之间存在显著的负向个体间关系（ = -0.25，标准误 = 0.11， = 0.021， = -0.39，标准误 = 0.15， = 0.011）。在个体内层面，发现暴力犯罪行为与心理幸福感之间存在一致的正向前瞻性关系，即个体暴力犯罪行为水平的增加往往预示着下一次随访时心理幸福感水平的提高（ = 0.21，标准误 = 0.076， < 0.01； = 0.14，标准误 = 0.051， < 0.01）。在个体内层面，未发现抑郁与心理幸福感之间的前瞻性关系。性别和种族/族裔身份并未调节研究结果。
