The Influence of Pubertal Development on Adolescent Depression: The Mediating Effects of Negative Physical Self and Interpersonal Stress

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Lijiao Jiang¹  Dandan Yang²  Yitong Li³  Jiajin Yuan⁴ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China;Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China;School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China;The Affective Cognition and Regulation Laboratory, Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China;

关键词: adolescent development;    depression;    negative physical self;    interpersonal stress;    academic self;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2021.786386

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The current study examined the influence of pubertal development stage on depression and its psychosocial mechanisms in a non-clinical population of 502 adolescents (244 boys and 258 girls) in China, graded 5 to 8. Results indicated that (1) pubertal development was positively correlated with depression, negative physical self and interpersonal stress. (2) There is a significant gender by pubertal development interaction on the measure of academic self-concept, which is accounted for by decreased academic self in boys but not in girls as a function of pubertal development. (3) Mediation analyses show that increased depression in late compared to pre- puberty is partly mediated by the enhancement of negative physical self and interpersonal stress. These findings suggest that the late stage of puberty is coupled by a higher risk of depression in adolescents partly through increased negative physical self and interpersonal stress.

【 授权许可】

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