Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 342-349.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.03.12

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Family Financial Strain and Adolescents' Depression: The Effects of Perceived Discrimination and Parent-adolescent Attachment

LI Dongping1, XU Lu1, BAO Zhenzhou2, CHEN Wu1, SU Xiaohui3, ZHANG Wei1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079;
    2. School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    3. Xingtan Middle School, Foshan 528325
  • Online:2015-05-15 Published:2015-05-15

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Abstract: A massive literature documents the positive association between family financial strain and adolescents' depression, but the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relation are still under-investigated. A survey with a sample of 703 middle school students was conducted to explore the mediating and moderating effects of perceived discrimination and parent-adolescent attachment in the relationship between family financial strain and depression among Chinese adolescents. Results were as follows: (1) After controlling for gender and grade, family financial strain significantly contributed to adolescents' depression;(2) Consistent with the mediation hypothesis, perceived discrimination played a mediating role in the relationship between family financial strain and depression;(3) Parent-adolescent attachment moderated the mediated path through perceived discrimination, such that this mediating effect was only significant for adolescents with insecure parent-adolescent attachment.

Key words: family financial strain, depression, perceived discrimination, parent-adolescent attachment

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  • B844
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