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Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 6/2017

05-12-2016

Predictors of Stress Generation in Adolescents in Mainland China

Auteurs: Claire J. Starrs, John R. Z. Abela, David C. Zuroff, Rhonda Amsel, Josephine H. Shih, Shuqiao Yao, Xiong Zhao Zhu, Wei Hong

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 6/2017

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Abstract

The current longitudinal study examined whether the personality vulnerabilities of self-criticism and dependency prospectively predicted stress generation in Chinese adolescents. Participants included 1,116 adolescents (588 girls and 528 boys), aged 15 to 18 years from rural, urban and ultra-urban mainland China. Participants completed self-report measures of personality, depressive and anxious symptoms and participated in a clinical interview assessing lifetime history of depression. The occurrence of negative life events was measured using a contextual-threat interview every 6-months for a total period of 18-months. Logistic regression analyses showed that after controlling for past depressive episodes and current depressive and anxious symptoms, self-criticism was prospectively associated with the occurrence of interpersonal stress generation, but not noninterpersonal stress generation. Dependency also predicted interpersonal stress generation, although only in girls and not boys. In line with previous Western findings, girls reported more interpersonal stress generation. Analyses across 3 levels of urbanization revealed several significant differences including higher reported interpersonal stress generation in urban girls than urban boys and overall higher levels of negative life events in ultra-urban youth. In sum, findings from the current study suggest that the stress generation process may be generalizable to Chinese youth.
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Because it has been suggested that personality vulnerabilities are equivalent to neuroticism (Barnett and Gotlib 1988; Coyne and Whiffen 1995), we conducted supplementary analyses controlling for Time 1 neuroticism (NEO-FFI-N, Costa and McCrae 1992). Results remained unchanged, confirming that our findings represent unique effects of dependency and self-criticism on stress generation.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Predictors of Stress Generation in Adolescents in Mainland China
Auteurs
Claire J. Starrs
John R. Z. Abela
David C. Zuroff
Rhonda Amsel
Josephine H. Shih
Shuqiao Yao
Xiong Zhao Zhu
Wei Hong
Publicatiedatum
05-12-2016
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 6/2017
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-016-0239-4

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