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Concurrent and Longitudinal Study on Self-esteem's Buffering the Effect of Stressful Events on Early Adolescents’ Depression

DENG Hui-hua, CHEN Hui, ZHONG Ping, TANG Xin, LIANG Zong-bao   

  1. Research Center of Learning Science, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • Online:2013-03-15 Published:2013-03-15

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Abstract: The present study used longitudinal data, which were self-reported 3 times by 598 early adolescents over a 3-year period, and conducted hierarchical multiple regression analyses in order to investigate whether self-esteem's buffering the effect of stressful events on depression varied with time gap between self-esteem and depression. It was found that the concurrent self-esteem buffered the concurrent and long-term effect of stressful events on depression. In contrast, the antecedent self-esteem enhanced the long-term effect of antecedent stressful events on depression. The finding has implications for interventions aimed at preventing depression where improving self-esteem of early adolescents in time would reduce the risk of depression induced by their experienced stressful events for individuals with low self-esteem.

Key words: Early adolescents, life event, depression, self-esteem's buffering

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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