Effect of early childhood psychological maltreatment on depression in non-only-child college students: the multiple mediating effects of sibling relationship and resilience / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the effect of child psychological abuse on adult depression in non-only-child families, and to investigate the mediating effects of sibling relationship and resilience.Methods:The child psychological abuse scale (CPAS), the life span sibling relationship scale(LSRS), Connor-Davidson resilience scale(CD-RISC) and the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale (CES-D) were were used to evaluate 2 995 non-only-child college students from March 2020 to July 2020.Descriptive analysis and correlation analysis were performed by SPSS 21.0 software.The mediating effect was tested by AMOS 23.0 software.Results:(1) The positive rate of childhood psychological abuse was 55.29%.The positive rate of depression(16(9, 24)) was 51.62%.(2) Psychological abuse, sibling relationship, resilience and depression were significantly different in the dimensions of parental relationship ( Z=-17.986, -13.822, -13.771, -12.620, -10.650, -11.524, all P<0.01). There was a significant difference in depression variables ( Z=-2.176, P<0.05). (3) Psychological abuse was positively correlated with depression ( r=0.558, P<0.01), and negatively correlated with sibling relationship and resilience ( r=-0.379, r=-0.270, both P<0.01). Sibling relationship was positively correlated with resilience ( r=0.380, P<0.01), and negatively correlated with depression ( r=-0.366, P<0.01). There was a significant negative correlation between resilience and depression ( r=-0.431, P<0.01). (4) The indirect effect value of psychological abuse on depression was 0.138, accounting for 9.37% of the total effect.Further testing the mediating effect of psychological resilience, adult sibling relationship and child sibling relationship, the single mediating effect of resilience accounted for 3.33% of the total effect, and the chain mediating effect of adult sibling relationship and resilience accounted for 2.76%. Conclusion:The relationship between psychological abuse and depression in non-only child is very close.The relationship between psychological resilience and sibling relationship, especially adult sibling relationship, can alleviate the depression, but this effect is limited to reducing the degree of depression and can not improve the incidence of depression.