The role of parenting, self-compassion and friendships in depressive symptoms among young people in the UK and China
dc.contributor.author | Zhao, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Ford, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Karl, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-29T09:30:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-11-23 | |
dc.date.updated | 2021-11-27T10:47:55Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Self-compassion, being kind to oneself in difficult times, is a way of relating to oneself that promotes better mental health, but little is known about how self-compassion affects interpersonal relationships. The current study examined the association between self-compassion and adolescent depressive symptoms from an interpersonal perspective in different cultural contexts. Adolescents (N = 422/570, Mean age = 14.44/13.41, UK/China) completed questionnaires about their perceptions of their parents' behaviour towards them, self-compassion, friendships and depressive symptoms. Structural equation modelling revealed that positive parenting was positively associated with higher self-compassion, positive friendship quality, and with fewer depressive symptoms in both samples. Additionally, we confirmed a negative association between self-compassion and depressive symptoms. The pathway from positive parenting to lower depressive symptoms via higher self-compassion was also corroborated in both cultures. Contrary to our hypothesis, positive quality of friendship was associated with higher depressive symptoms in both countries. Conflicts were associated with more depressive symptoms in the Chinese sample only. There was evidence of a negative association between self-compassion and conflicts in the Chinese sample only. Finally, the direct association between self-compassion and depressive symptoms was greater in the UK sample, whereas in the Chinese sample, interpersonal factors were more strongly associated with self-compassion and depressive symptoms. Our findings suggest that self-compassion may be a useful therapeutic target to improve social functioning and mental health among adolescents and that it may be necessary to account for cross-cultural differences in interpersonal factors when designing psychological interventions. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 23 November 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02485-x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/127969 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-8078-6514 (Zhao, Mengya) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Adolescent depressive symptoms | en_GB |
dc.subject | Self-compassion | en_GB |
dc.subject | Parenting behaviour | en_GB |
dc.subject | Friendship | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cross culture | en_GB |
dc.title | The role of parenting, self-compassion and friendships in depressive symptoms among young people in the UK and China | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-29T09:30:58Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1046-1310 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Availability of data and analysis syntax; All data and data analysis syntax are available upon request from the authors. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1936-4733 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Current Psychology | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Current Psychology | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-11-03 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-11-29T09:29:32Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-29T09:31:11Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2021-11-23 |
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