Parental attachment, self‐control, and depressive symptoms in Chinese and Italian adolescents: Test of a mediation model

Li, Jianbin; Delvecchio, Elisa; Lis, Adriana; Nie, Yangang; Riso, Daniela Di

doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.06.006

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“…Our findings showed the insecure attachment patterns in the adolescents with clinical manifestation of depressive disorders, comparing to the healthy controls. These results, as expected, confirm the findings of correlation between insecure attachment and depression in previous studies of adolescents [22][23][24][25][26] as well as in studies of adults 10 . Small number of studies dealt with depressive disorder among adolescents 22 .…”

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Attachment and emotional regulation in adolescents with depression

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Background/Aim. Attachment and emotion regulation skills are recognized as important factors in the development of depression, but their specifics have rarely been discussed in clinical adolescent population. The aim of our study was to investigate attachment and emotion regulation strategies in adolescents with depression. Methods. The sample consisted of 101 adolescents, age 16 to 24, divided into three groups: 1) 41 adolescents with the diagnosis of depressive disorder; 2) 30 adolescents with the diagnosis of anxiety disorder; 3) 30 health adolescents (without psychiatric diagnosis). The assessment was done by the following instruments: the Socio-demographic questionnaire; the Semistructured clinical interview (SCID-I) for the Diagnostic and Stratistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV); the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI); the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) and Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). Data were analyzed using MANCOVA and partial correlation, with gender, age and birth order as covariates. Results. The adolescents with depressive disorders had less secure attachment to mother and peers than the health adolescents and less secure attachment to father comparing to other two groups (MAN-COVA F = 4.571; p = 0.000). The adolescents with anxiety disorder had less secure attachment to father and peers compared to the healthy adolescents group (p < 0.05). The depressed adolescents used the strategy of cognitive reappraisal less often than both control groups (MANCOVA F = 5.200; p = 0.001). Subjective experience of depressive symptoms was related to insecure attachments to both parents and peers (r =-0.457;-0.436;-0.349; p = 0.000), as well as to lower use of cognitive reappraisal (r =-0.446; p = 0.000). Conclusion. Our findings related the adolescent depression to insecure attachment in all domains, with the specific weakness in emotion regulation (weak cognitive reappraisal). The findings could have practical implications for preventive and therapeutic interventions.

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Attachment and emotional regulation in adolescents with depression

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“…All items were reverse scored to compute a composite score such that higher scores indicate higher levels of parental attachment. This scale has shown good reliability and construct validity in several Chinese adolescent samples (Li, Delvecchio, Lis, Nie, & Di Riso, 2015; Song, Thompson, & Ferrer, 2009). In this sample, the scale demonstrated good internal consistency (α = .88).…”

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Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Yuan

Liu

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Previous studies have shown that parental attachment is associated with low severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and low academic burnout in individuals who have experienced traumatic events. Objective: The present study investigated the ways in which parental attachment is related to PTSD symptoms and academic burnout in Chinese traumatized adolescents by considering the role of dispositional mindfulness. Method: A total of 443 Chinese adolescents who had experienced a severe tornado one year prior to this study completed measures of parental attachment, dispositional mindfulness, PTSD and academic burnout. Results: The results showed that our model fitted the data well [χ2/df = 2.968, CFI = 0.971, TLI = 0.955, RMSEA (90% CI) = 0.067 (0.052–0.082)] and revealed that dispositional mindfulness partially mediates the relationship between parental attachment, PTSD severity and academic burnout. Conclusions: The findings suggested that dispositional mindfulness and parental attachment may be two critical resources in dealing with traumatization and academic burnout.

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“…Indeed, there is initial evidence to suggest that self‐control is negatively associated with the development of internalizing problems in Chinese children (Chen, Zhang, et al, ). However, most of the previous studies of self‐control in Chinese children have been cross‐sectional in design (e.g., Chen et al, ; Li, Delvecchio, Lis, Nie, & Di Riso, ). Moreover, the few longitudinal studies have been limited to two time points and did not attempt to control for stability effects or concurrent links among variables (e.g., Chen, Zhang, et al, ).…”

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Self‐control, peer preference, and loneliness in Chinese children: A three‐year longitudinal study

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The purpose of this study was to explore the longitudinal links among Chinese children's self-control, social experiences, and loneliness, largely from a developmental cascades perspective (which postulates mechanisms about how effects within a particular domain of functioning can impact across additional domains over time). Participants were N 5 1,066 primary school students in Shanghai, P. R. China, who were followed over three years from Grade 3 to Grade 5. Measures of children's behavioral self-control, peer preference, and loneliness were obtained each year from peer nominations and child selfreports. Results indicated that as compared with the unidirectional and bidirectional models, the developmental cascade model represented the best fit for the data. Within this model, a number of significant direct and indirect pathways were identified among variables and over time. For example, self-control was found to indirectly contribute to later decreases in loneliness via a pathway through peer preference. As well, peer preference both directly and indirectly contributed to later increases in self-control. Finally, loneliness directly led to decreases in self-control from Grade 3 to Grade 4, but not from Grade 4 to Grade 5. Results are discussed in terms of the implications of self-control for Chinese children's social and emotional functioning over time. K E Y W O R D S cascade models, contextual-developmental perspective, loneliness, peer preference, self-control

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Parental attachment, self‐control, and depressive symptoms in Chinese and Italian adolescents: Test of a mediation model

Cited by 72 publications

References 55 publications

Attachment and emotional regulation in adolescents with depression

Attachment and emotional regulation in adolescents with depression

Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Self‐control, peer preference, and loneliness in Chinese children: A three‐year longitudinal study

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