Childhood Trauma and Psychological Distress: A Serial Mediation Model among Chinese Adolescents
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Theoretical Bases
1.2. Childhood Trauma and General Distress
1.3. The Mediating Role of Social Support
1.4. The Mediating Role of Family Functioning
1.5. The Serial Mediating Role of Social Support and Family Functioning
1.6. The Current Study
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Outcome
2.2.2. Independent Variable
2.2.3. Mediators
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Analyses and Correlation Analyses
3.2. Test of Mediation
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Participant Attributes | n (%)/Mean (SD) |
---|---|
Gender | |
Male | 996 (46.6%) |
Female | 1143 (53.4%) |
Age | 14.67 (1.53) |
Grade | |
7th | 698 (32.6%) |
8th | 712 (33.3%) |
10th | 300 (14%) |
11th | 429 (20.1%) |
Mean | SD | Gender | Age | Childhood Trauma | Social Support | Family Functioning | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender | -- | -- | -- | ||||
Age | 14.67 | 1.53 | 0.030 | -- | |||
Childhood trauma | 34.30 | 10.36 | −0.032 | 0.016 | -- | ||
Social support | 38.61 | 8.59 | −0.110 ** | −0.113 ** | −0.403 ** | -- | |
Family functioning | 23.79 | 6.07 | 0.018 | −0.078 ** | −0.566 ** | 0.427 ** | -- |
General distress | 13.80 | 13.42 | 0.039 | 0.056 ** | 0.444 ** | −0.353 ** | −0.419 ** |
Variable | Social Support | Family Functioning | General Distress | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total/Direct Effect | Total Effect | Direct Effect | Total Effect | Direct Effect | |
Childhood trauma | −0.406 *** | −0.565 *** | −0.469 *** | 0.445 *** | 0.270 *** |
Social support | 0.236 *** | −0.200 *** | −0.153 *** | ||
Family functioning | −0.199 *** | ||||
R2 | 0.188 | 0.370 | 0.260 |
Pathway | Indirect Effect | SE | Bias-Corrected 95%CI | |
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Lower | Upper | |||
Total indirect | 0.175 | 0.015 | 0.147 | 0.204 |
Childhood trauma→Social support→General distress | 0.062 | 0.011 | 0.041 | 0.084 |
Childhood trauma→Family functioning→General distress | 0.094 | 0.012 | 0.071 | 0.117 |
Childhood trauma→Social support→Family functioning→General distress | 0.019 | 0.003 | 0.014 | 0.025 |
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Zhang, L.; Ma, X.; Yu, X.; Ye, M.; Li, N.; Lu, S.; Wang, J. Childhood Trauma and Psychological Distress: A Serial Mediation Model among Chinese Adolescents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 6808. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136808
Zhang L, Ma X, Yu X, Ye M, Li N, Lu S, Wang J. Childhood Trauma and Psychological Distress: A Serial Mediation Model among Chinese Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(13):6808. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136808
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Lin, Xueyao Ma, Xianglian Yu, Meizhu Ye, Na Li, Shan Lu, and Jiayi Wang. 2021. "Childhood Trauma and Psychological Distress: A Serial Mediation Model among Chinese Adolescents" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13: 6808. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136808