Gender, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adolescents.
Gender, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adolescents.
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10.1177/0272431608320125
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
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Seligman ME
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作者：
Chaplin TM;Gillham JE;Seligman ME
焦虑是否会导致女孩比男孩更抑郁？本研究前瞻性地探讨了青少年早期焦虑和抑郁症状之间关系的性别差异。113名11至14岁的中学生完成问卷调查，评估抑郁症状和三个维度的焦虑（担心和过度敏感，社会关注和集中，和生理焦虑），以及总的焦虑症状在初始评估和1年后。总的焦虑和担心和过度敏感的症状被发现预测以后的抑郁症状更强烈的女孩比男孩。社交问题和注意力集中症状的结果也有类似的模式，尽管这没有达到统计学显著性。生理性焦虑预示着男孩和女孩以后的抑郁症状。这些发现强调了焦虑对青春期抑郁症发展的重要性，特别是女孩的担忧和过度敏感。
Does anxiety lead to depression more for girls than for boys? This study prospectively examines gender differences in the relationship between anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. One hundred thirteen 11- to 14-year-old middle school students complete questionnaires assessing depressive symptoms and three dimensions of anxiety (worry and oversensitivity, social concerns and concentration, and physiological anxiety) as well as total anxiety symptoms at an initial assessment and 1 year later. Total anxiety and worry and oversensitivity symptoms are found to predict later depressive symptoms more strongly for girls than for boys. There is a similar pattern of results for social concerns and concentration symptoms, although this does not reach statistical significance. Physiological anxiety predicts later depressive symptoms for both boys and girls. These findings highlight the importance of anxiety for the development of depression in adolescence, particularly worry and oversensitivity among girls.