Linking Parenting and Informal Mentor Processes to Depressive Symptoms Among Rural African American Young Adult Men
Linking Parenting and Informal Mentor Processes to Depressive Symptoms Among Rural African American Young Adult Men
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DOI：
10.1037/a0018672
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Brody, Gene H.
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作者：
Kogan, Steven M.;Brody, Gene H.
关于农村非洲裔美国男性在成年后的抑郁症状发生率或预测这些发生率的过程知之甚少。在南方腹地的许多农村非洲裔美国人面临着困难的环境，提供最少的资源和减少社会支持，以帮助他们走上有益的生活道路。一个模型的保护过程假设，以阻止这一人群中的抑郁症进行了测试，其中包括健康促进养育，非正式的指导，和保护性的自我调节过程。来自116名年龄在18-21岁之间的农村非洲裔美国男性的受访者驱动抽样研究的数据被用来测试研究假设。临床显著抑郁症的未校正患病率为37.9%。正如预测的那样，自我调节过程介导的影响，促进抑郁症状的父母。离开家庭与自我调节过程呈负相关，受教育程度与自我调节过程呈正相关。来自非正式导师的支持缓和了促进自我调节的父母和自我调节过程之间的联系。研究结果表明，可塑性目标的干预发展与这一人群。
Little is known about the rates of depressive symptoms among rural African American men during young adulthood or the processes that predict those rates. Many rural African American men in the deep South confront difficult environments that provide minimal resources and diminishing social support to help them embark on beneficial life paths. A model of protective processes hypothesized to deter depression among this population was tested that included autonomy-promoting parenting, informal mentoring, and protective self-regulatory processes. Data from a Respondent-Driven Sampling study with 116 rural African American men age 18-21 were used to test study hypotheses. The unadjusted prevalence of clinically significant depression was 37.9%. As predicted, self-regulatory processes mediated the influence of autonomy-promoting parenting on depressive symptoms. Leaving the family home was associated negatively and educational attainment was associated positively with self-regulatory processes. Support from an informal mentor moderated the link between autonomy-promoting parenting and self-regulatory processes. Findings suggest malleable targets for intervention development with this population.