Depression, Attachment and Addiction Problems in Runaway Youths

OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the relationship between depression, attachment and addiction problems in runaway youths. METHODS: We sent a questionnaire package to 187 runaway youths in 18 adolescent shelters. The questionnaire package collected their sociodemographic data and included the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Inventory of Parent Attachment (IPA), Korean Internet Addiction Self-Scale (K-Scale), Korean version of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and Korean version of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence. RESULTS: The percentage of youth with depression was 28.8% (N=54). In the depression group, there were significantly more problematic alcohol users (53.06%, p=.0199) and significantly lower IPA scores (p=.0064). There was a significant negative correlation between depression and a IPA, and significant positive correlation between depression and the K-Scale. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that runaway youths with depression have more problematic alcohol drinking and attachment problems.

The Influence of Parent and Peer Attachment in Adolescent's Suicidal Ideation: Mediating Effect of Depression and Anxiety / 신경정신의학

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among parent attachment, peer attachment, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation of adolescents and the mediating effect of depression and anxiety in these relationships. METHODS: This study targeted 916 middle and high schools students in three different cities. They completed a self-report questionnaire. RESULTS: Parental attachment showed a highly positive correlation with peer attachment while parental attachment and peer attachment showed a highly negative correlation with depression and anxiety. In addition, parental attachment and peer attachment showed a highly negative correlation with suicidal ideation while depression and anxiety showed a highly positive correlation with suicidal ideation. Parental attachment, not only directly, but also indirectly, affects suicidal ideation with mediation of depression and anxiety, indicating that the more secure the level of attachment, the lower the occurrence of depression and anxiety are, which, as a result, can lower suicidal ideation tendency. CONCLUSION: Parent attachment and peer attachment have a direct and indirect effect on suicidal ideation with the mediation of depression and anxiety, which plays a crucial role in suicidal ideation of adolescents.

Relationship between Childhood Abuse Experience,Parent Attachment and Depression in Adolescents / 实用儿科临床杂志

Objective To explore the relationship between childhood abuse experience,parent and peer attachment and depression in adolescents.Methods A total of 736 junior students from the 7th,8th and 9th grades of 2 public schools in Xinxiang City and Jiyuan City Henan province completed the questionnaires.Childhood Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ),Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment(IPPA) and Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children(DSRSC) were employed the childhood abuse experience,parent attachment quality and depressive mood in adolescents,respectively.The hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between parent and peer attachment,child abused experience and depression.Results Male participants reported high score of childhood abused than female participants(33.29±7.89 and 31.05±6.01,t=4.343,P=0.000).There were no significantly gender difference in mother attachment(male:59.89±15.86,female:61.45±16.48,t=-1.303,P=0.193),father attachment(male:59.32±17.17,female:60.28±16.95,t=-0.764,P=0.445) and depression(male:7.68±5.27,female:7.31±4.21,t=1.057,P=0.291).Childhood abuse had a positive correlation with adolescent depression(r=0.408,P=0.000),which negatively correlated with mother and father attachment(r=-0.544,-0.417,respectively,Pa=0.000).There was a positive correlation between mother attachment and father attachment(r=0.604,P=0.000),and both of them had negative correlation with depressive disorder(both r=-0.426,Pa=0.000).Mother and father attachment were the partial mediation of the relationship between childhood abuse and adolescent depression.Conclusions Male adolescents suffered more maltreatment than female adolescents.There are no gender difference in parent attachment and depression.Parent attachment plays the partial mediator role in childhood abuse and adolescent depression.Results reveal the importance of assessment and consideration of parent attachment in the intervention of depression in abused adolescents.

Effect of parental authority, parental psychological control and parent attachment on social anxiety of different growth places medical students / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

Objective To explore the relationship between parental authority,parental psychological control, parental attachment and medical students' social anxiety, and to provide theoretical guidance for medical students' mental health.Methods 2105 medical students were assessed with the social phobia inventory (SPIN), Parental authority questionnaire (PAQ), Parental psychological control questionnaire, Inventory of parent attachment (IPA).Results The mean SPIN score of social anxiety was 17.75 ± 10.47.Girls scored higher than boys,but there were no statistically significant differences between them( 17.97±10.44 vs 17.29 ± 10.52, t =1.305, P=0.192).Rural medical students scored higher than urban students,and the difference had statistical significance (19.47 ± 10.60 vs 15.85 ± 10.01, t = 7.478, P ＜ 0.01 ).Stepwise regression revealed that, for urban students' anxiety, father communication and mother authoritative/flexible were protective factors, father unconscionable emotional response, mother alienation, father unconscionable viewpoint and mother communication were risk factors; and for rural students' anxiety father communication was protective factor, mother alienation and mother authoritarian were risk factors.Conclusion Factors such as parental authority, parental psychological control and parental attachment will affect medical students' social anxiety.But the factors are not same between urban and rural.So these factors are considered when carrying out health education for parents.