Song Shengcheng, Xu Ning, Yuan Bin, Li Caina
School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, Xi'an, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Jul 12. doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02210-y.
Peer cliques shape adolescents' behavior patterns and value norms, while also influencing their perceptions of parenting practices and emotional experiences. Although the relationship between parental psychological control and adolescent adjustment issues has received increasing attention, the underlying mechanisms of this relationship, particularly from the perspective of peer cliques remain unclear. Based on both the individual and peer levels, this study employed a multilevel model to investigate the roles of individual self-esteem and clique support norms in the bidirectional relationship between parental psychological control and depressive symptoms. A total of 904 middle school students from Shaanxi Province, China (43% girls; M = 12.73, SD = 0.43) participated in this three-wave longitudinal study (initiated in 2015, with a one-year interval). Results indicated that T1 depressive symptoms could influence T3 depressive symptoms and parental psychological control through T2 self-esteem, and high clique support norms strengthened the negative association between T1 depressive symptoms and T2 self-esteem, particularly in all-boys cliques. These findings reveal that while focusing on the important role of self-esteem in adolescent mental health interventions, more attention should be paid to the potential negative effects of high peer support norms on depressed individuals.
同伴群体塑造青少年的行为模式和价值规范，同时也影响他们对养育方式的认知和情感体验。尽管父母心理控制与青少年适应问题之间的关系已受到越来越多的关注，但这种关系的潜在机制，尤其是从同伴群体的角度来看，仍不清楚。本研究基于个体和同伴两个层面，采用多层次模型来探究个体自尊和群体支持规范在父母心理控制与抑郁症状双向关系中的作用。来自中国陕西省的904名中学生（43%为女生；平均年龄M = 12.73岁，标准差SD = 0.43）参与了这项三波次的纵向研究（始于2015年，间隔为一年）。结果表明，T1期的抑郁症状可通过T2期的自尊影响T3期的抑郁症状和父母心理控制，高群体支持规范强化了T1期抑郁症状与T2期自尊之间的负相关，尤其是在全男生群体中。这些发现表明，在关注自尊在青少年心理健康干预中的重要作用时，应更多关注高同伴支持规范对抑郁个体的潜在负面影响。
