Childhood emotional maltreatment and psychological richness among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effect of gratitude

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Abuse & Neglect Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107133

Yifan Liu , Ao Ren , Tiantian Guo, Chengcheng Li, Yuening Liu, Feng Kong

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Abstract

Background

Childhood emotional maltreatment impairs adolescents' well-being, but less is known about the link between childhood emotional maltreatment and adolescents' psychological richness, a new form of well-being and the mechanism underlying the link.

Objective

This study aimed to reveal the longitudinal effect of childhood emotional maltreatment on psychological richness as well as the mediating role of gratitude among Chinese adolescents.

Methods

A total of 577 (354 females; M_age = 16.19 years, SD_age = 0.50 years) adolescents participated in this study by voluntarily completing questionnaires. First, we used a regression analysis to test the longitudinal relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and adolescents' psychological richness. Next, we explored the mediating role of gratitude using a mediation analysis at two time points. For all of the above analyses we used gender, age, hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being as covariates.

Results

The regression analysis revealed a negative relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and psychological richness four months later in teenagers. The results of the mediation analysis showed that the association between psychological richness and childhood emotional maltreatment was mediated by gratitude.

Conclusions

This research demonstrated that childhood emotional maltreatment had a negative predictive role in teenagers' psychological richness and gratitude acted as a mediator in this relationship. Thus, enhancing gratitude levels may be an important intervention.

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中国青少年的童年情感虐待与心理丰富性：感恩的中介效应

背景：童年情绪虐待会损害青少年的幸福感，但人们对童年情绪虐待与青少年心理丰富度（一种新的幸福感形式）之间的联系及其机制知之甚少：本研究旨在揭示童年情绪虐待对中国青少年心理丰富度的纵向影响以及感恩的中介作用：共有577名青少年（354名女性；男=16.19岁，女=0.50岁）自愿填写了调查问卷。首先，我们使用回归分析法检验了童年情绪虐待与青少年心理丰富度之间的纵向关系。接着，我们在两个时间点进行了中介分析，探讨了感恩的中介作用。在上述所有分析中，我们都使用了性别、年龄、享乐幸福感和幸福感作为协变量：回归分析表明，童年情感虐待与四个月后青少年的心理丰富度之间存在负相关。中介分析的结果表明，心理丰富度与童年情绪虐待之间的关系是由感激之情中介的：这项研究表明，童年情感虐待对青少年的心理丰富度具有负向预测作用，而感恩则是这种关系的中介。因此，提高感恩水平可能是一项重要的干预措施。

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Child Abuse & Neglect Multiple-

CiteScore

7.40

自引率

10.40%

发文量

397

期刊介绍： Official Publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal, provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment; the scope extends further to all those aspects of life which either favor or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the Journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organizations to contribute.