Do girls with depressive symptoms exhibit more physical aggression than boys? A cross sectional study in a national adolescent sample
Do girls with depressive symptoms exhibit more physical aggression than boys? A cross sectional study in a national adolescent sample
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DOI：
10.1186/s13034-015-0064-5
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发表时间：
2015-08-22
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Cohen, David
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作者：
Benarous, Xavier;Hassler, Christine;Cohen, David
背景资料：青少年抑郁与攻击行为之间的关系在临床和流行病学研究中已有报道。然而，关于性别对这种关系的影响有相互矛盾的证据。本研究测试是否抑郁症状和身体攻击之间的联系不同的男孩和女孩在一个大的社区为基础的样本adolescents.Methods：一个横断面样本的青少年年龄在15-19岁（N = 6,677）进行了研究，在2007年ESPAD全国调查。使用青少年抑郁评定量表评估抑郁症状。我们区分了青少年与阈下水平的抑郁症状和青少年与临床显着水平的抑郁症状。在过去的一年中，身体攻击行为的报告使用项目从反社会行为Scale.Results：调整混杂变量后，抑郁症状和身体攻击行为之间的比值比约为1.4。这种关系是更强的女孩比男孩在临床上显着水平的抑郁症状的存在下，但并没有不同的性别的情况下，阈下水平的抑郁symptoms.Conclusions：严重抑郁症状的女孩更有可能提出身体攻击行为比男孩。未来的研究将需要探讨易怒在这些差异中的作用。
Background: The relationship between depression and aggressive behaviors in adolescents has previously been reported in clinical and epidemiological studies. However, there is conflicting evidence concerning the effect of gender on this relationship. This study tested whether the link between depressive symptoms and physical aggression differed between boys and girls in a large community-based sample of adolescents.Methods: A cross-sectional sample of adolescents aged 15-19 (N = 6,677) was studied within the 2007 ESPAD national survey. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Adolescent Depression Rating Scale. We distinguished adolescents with subthreshold levels of depressive symptoms and adolescents with clinically significant levels of depressive symptoms. Physical aggressive behaviors in the last year were reported using items from the Antisocial Behavior Scale.Results: After adjusting for confounding variables, the odds-ratio between depressive symptoms and physical aggressive behaviors was around 1.4. This relationship was stronger for girls than for boys in presence of clinically significant levels of depressive symptoms, but did not differ between the genders in the case of subthreshold levels of depressive symptoms.Conclusions: Girls with severe depressive symptoms were more likely to present physical aggressive behaviors than boys. Future studies will be needed to explore the role of irritability in these differences.