心理科学 ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (1): 70-79.DOI: 10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20240109

• 发展与教育 • 上一篇    下一篇

父母心理控制与青少年内外化问题的纵向关联:悲伤与愤怒反刍的中介*

贾倩楠, 黄垣成, 马婧, 李彩娜**   

  1. 陕西师范大学心理学院,西安, 710062
  • 出版日期:2024-01-20 发布日期:2024-01-30
  • 通讯作者: ** 李彩娜,E-mail: chinali7371@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    *本研究得到国家社会科学基金项目(21XSH012)的资助

Parental Psychological Control and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems among Adolescents: The Role of Rumination on Sadness and Anger

Jia Qiannan, Huang Yuancheng, Ma Jing, Li Caina   

  1. School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi' an, 710062
  • Online:2024-01-20 Published:2024-01-30

摘要: 对861名初中生进行三年追踪研究, 考察青少年感知的父母心理控制与内外化问题(抑郁与关系攻击)间的纵向关联及悲伤/愤怒两种反刍中介机制的异同。结果发现:(1)父母心理控制能正向预测两年后的青少年抑郁与关系攻击;(2)两种反刍在父母心理控制与抑郁/关系攻击间的独立中介仅在男生群体成立,即父母心理控制-悲伤反刍-抑郁、父母心理控制-愤怒反刍-关系攻击;在女生群体中则不成立。研究结果对青少年内外化问题的预防及干预具有一定的指导意义。

关键词: 父母心理控制, 抑郁, 关系攻击, 悲伤反刍, 愤怒反刍

Abstract: Previous research has revealed that both internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescence were prominent risk factors for developmental disorders in adulthood. Thus, identifying risk or protective factors of adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problems would be helpful to provide theoretical bases for prevention programs. Parenting style has been documented to play a crucial role in adolescents’ development. Parental psychological control, as a typical negative parenting style, refers to parents' attempt to control children’s emotions and behavior through psychological means. According to the Social-ecological Diathesis-stress model, parental psychological control as a stressful life event may activate adolescents’ cognitive vulnerability (e.g., rumination), thus leading to negative developmental outcomes, such as depression and relational aggression. Moreover, rumination has been differentiated into sadness rumination and anger rumination. Sadness rumination has been conceptualized as repetitive thinking that focuses on one’s sadness, which will continually exacerbate adolescents’ negative emotions and make them unable to take positive and effective coping actions and gain support from others, thus increasing adolescents’ depression. In contrast, anger rumination refers to thinking repeatedly about anger and contributes to the maintenance and intensification of angry feelings. Adolescents with high anger rumination are more likely to be over-sensitive to negative social situations and to have rapid activation of aggressive schemas, which ultimately trigger their relational aggression. Therefore, this three-wave longitudinal study aimed at exploring the unique roles of both sadness rumination and anger rumination in the relationships between parental psychological control and depression/relational aggression.
A sample of 861 adolescents (57% male, Mage =12.73 years old, SDage= .43 years old) was recruited from junior middle school located in western China, Xi’an, and followed for three time points, one year apart. After gaining informed consent from students, their parents, and schools, all participants completed a set of questionnaires which included the Parental Psychological Control Scale, the Sadness and Anger Rumination Questionnaire, The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, and the Social Experience Questionnaire in their classroom during a class session. SPSS22.0 was used to calculate descriptive statistics and the correlations between study variables. Mplus 7.0 was performed to examine the hypothetical mediation model.
The result indicated that: (1) Parental psychological control increased adolescents’ depression and relational aggression behavior two years later. (2) The mediating effect of sadness rumination and anger rumination on parental psychological control and depression/ relational aggression was only significant for boys. That is, for boys, sadness rumination exclusively accounted for the relation between parental psychological control and depression, while anger rumination exclusively explained the relationships between parental psychological control and relational aggression behavior.
Our findings have revealed several new insights into the roles of both sadness rumination and anger rumination in the effect of parental psychological control on depression and relational aggression behaviors in adolescents. We found that adolescents would increase their depression mainly because of sadness rumination, whereas they would increase their relational aggression because of anger rumination. The results not only verified the effects of sadness rumination and anger rumination as two unique structures on adolescent mental health development theoretically, but also provide suggestions for follow-up intervention.

Key words: parental psychological control, depression, relational aggression, sadness rumination, anger rumination