Maternal Parenting Behaviors and Adolescent Depression: The Mediating Role of Rumination
Maternal Parenting Behaviors and Adolescent Depression: The Mediating Role of Rumination
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DOI：
10.1080/15374416.2012.755927
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Allen, Nicholas B.
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作者：
Gate, Michael A.;Watkins, Edward R.;Allen, Nicholas B.
大量证据表明，反刍是青少年抑郁的一个重要脆弱因素。尽管如此，很少有研究调查环境风险因素，这些因素可能导致青春期的反刍和随后的抑郁。本研究检验了不良家庭环境是反刍风险因素的假设，因此反刍倾向在消极家庭环境与青少年抑郁症状之间的纵向关联中起中介作用。研究还调查了青少年性别在家庭环境和青少年反刍之间的调节作用。参与者是163名母亲和青少年的二人组。青少年通过三波数据收集（大约在12岁、15岁和17岁）提供了抑郁症状和反刍的自我报告。家庭环境是通过观察性评估在实验室中由母亲和青少年完成的互动中积极和攻击性父母行为的频率来测量的，这些互动是在第一波中收集的。自举分析显示，低水平的积极母亲行为通过青少年反刍对青少年抑郁症状有显著的间接影响，提示反刍可能在低水平的积极母亲行为与女孩抑郁症状之间起中介作用。这项研究强调了积极的父母行为作为一个可能的保护因素的重要性，防止青少年反刍的发展，随后，抑郁症状。改善青少年心理健康的一种有效的预防方法可能是向父母提供心理教育，使他们认识到与子女进行愉快和肯定的互动的重要性。
Substantial evidence suggests that rumination is an important vulnerability factor for adolescent depression. Despite this, few studies have examined environmental risk factors that might lead to rumination and, subsequently, depression in adolescence. This study examined the hypothesis that an adverse family environment is a risk factor for rumination, such that the tendency to ruminate mediates the longitudinal association between a negative family environment and adolescent depressive symptoms. It also investigated adolescent gender as a moderator of the relationship between family environment and adolescent rumination. Participants were 163 motheradolescent dyads. Adolescents provided self-reports of depressive symptoms and rumination across three waves of data collection (approximately at ages 12, 15, and 17 years). Family environment was measured via observational assessment of the frequency of positive and aggressive parenting behaviors during laboratory-based interactions completed by mother-adolescent dyads, collected during the first wave. A bootstrap analysis revealed a significant indirect effect of low levels of positive maternal behavior on adolescent depressive symptoms via adolescent rumination, suggesting that rumination might mediate the relationship between low levels of positive maternal behavior and depressive symptoms for girls. This study highlights the importance of positive parenting behaviors as a possible protective factor against the development of adolescent rumination and, subsequently, depressive symptoms. One effective preventive approach to improving adolescent mental health may be providing parents with psychoeducation concerning the importance of pleasant and affirming interactions with their children.