PARENTS STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS AND ADOLESCENT DEPRESSED MOOD
PARENTS STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS AND ADOLESCENT DEPRESSED MOOD
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DOI：
10.2307/2137333
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发表时间：
1994-03-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
SIMONS, RL
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文献类型：
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作者：
GE, XJ;CONGER, RD;SIMONS, RL
本研究对生活在中西部农村的451个家庭进行了调查，探讨了父母经历的压力性生活事件与青少年抑郁情绪之间关系的中介模型。该模型旨在克服以往关于父母压力事件与青少年抑郁情绪关系研究的两个局限性：1）考察父母情绪和父母行为的中介过程; 2）使用多个被试对理论结构进行评估。本研究的结果表明，父母经历的压力性生活事件首先与父母的抑郁情绪有关，这会破坏熟练的父母教养方式。破坏的育儿实践反过来又增加了青少年出现抑郁症状的风险。结果表明，列入这些中介过程代表了一个显着的改进，双变量模型和假设的中介模型概括为四个父母-青少年的二对：父亲和儿子，父亲和女儿，母亲和儿子，母亲和女儿。此外，只有当父母的报告被纳入两个理论结构时，父母的压力性生活事件才与青春期男孩的抑郁情绪直接相关。当父母的报告被删除作为青少年抑郁情绪结构的指标，父母压力对青少年抑郁情绪的影响主要是由压力相关的父母抑郁情绪和苛刻/不一致的养育。
The present study of 451 families living in the rural Midwest examines a mediational model of the relationship between the stressful life events experienced by parents and adolescent depressed mood. This model is intended to overcome two limitations in previous research on the relationship between parents' stressful events and adolescent depressed mood by 1) examining a mediating process involving parental mood and parenting behavior, and 2) using multiple informants to assess the theoretical constructs. Findings from the present study indicate that stressful life events experienced by parents are first related to parents' depressed mood which operates to disrupt skillful parenting practices. The disrupted parenting practices in turn place adolescents at increased risk for developing depressive symptoms. The results show that inclusion of these mediating processes represents a significant improvement over the bivariate model and that the hypothesized mediational model generalizes to four parent-adolescent dyads: fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, and mothers and daughters. Moreover, parents' stressful life events are related directly to adolescent boys' depressed mood only when parents' reports are included in both theoretical constructs. When parents' reports are removed as an indicator for the adolescent depressed mood construct, the effects of parental stress on adolescent depressed mood are largely accounted for by stress-related parental depressed mood and harsh/inconsistent parenting.