Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 753-760.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.06.14

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The Longitudinal Effects of Subjective Social Status on Depression in Chinese College Freshmen Transition: A Multivariate Latent Growth Approach

CHENG Gang1,2, ZHANG Dajun2, XIAO Youqin3, GUAN Yusheng2, CHEN Yanhong2   

  1. 1. School of Educational Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001;
    2. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715;
    3. Earthquake prevention and disaster relief service center of Guiyang City, Guiyang 550001
  • Online:2016-11-15 Published:2016-11-15

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Abstract: In this study, 1983 college freshmen were recruited by cluster sampling from 7 universities in China. The subjective social status and depression of the freshmen were evaluated by the Subjective Social Status Index System of College Students and the Self-Rating Depression Scale for four times. Latent growth modeling was used to examine the growth trajectories of subjective social status and depression, and the longitudinal effects of subjective social status on depression were analyzed by using multivariate latent growth modeling. The findings were as followed:(1) the growth trajectory of freshmen's subjective social status is piecewise linear, and the first month is the predetermined knot, where there was a significant decline in subjective social status, then it began to rise slowly; (2) the depression level of freshmen increased in a quadratic linear trajectory, and it also found that there existed significant variation among individuals in the initial level and growth rate, but the initial levels of depression and its growth rate were not related; (3) the multivariate latent growth model suggested that the initial level of subjective social status can effectively predicted the initial level of depression (β=-0.37,p<0.001), and the decline slope of subjective social status in the first month had significant effects on the slope (β=-0.38,p<0.001) and quadratic slope (β=0.37,p<0.01) of depression. Those findings suggest that not only subjective social status will affect the individuals' depression in the long term, but also directly affect the individuals' depression in the short term. The negative contrast effects on subjective social status of college freshmen are important reasons for the decline in their mental health.

Key words: college freshmen, subjective social status, depression, life transition, multivariate latent growth modeling

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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