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Zhihong Qiao
Beijing Normal University
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Background: Parenting style has been extensively demonstrated as a predictor of depression in children and adolescents, but few studies have examined the antecedents of parenting style, especially parents’ beliefs towards children. The effect of parents’ implicit beliefs on children’s mental health is still unclear. This study aimed to explore the influence of parents’ value of children (VOC) on adolescent depression, and the underlying mechanism between parents’ VOC and adolescent depression.
Methods: High school and college students and their parents were recruited to participate a cross-sectional online survey. The parents completed the VOC scale, and the adolescents completed the scales of parenting style, external LOC, self-esteem, and depression. A structural equation model was performed to analyze the multiple mediating effects on adolescent depression.
Results: A total of 963 Chinese adolescents (Mage = 17.78 ± 1.94 years, 55.5% female) and their parents (Mage = 45.40 ± 4.40 years, 58% mothers) were recruited and examined in the current analysis. The results showed that the social and psychological benefits of VOC directly predict adolescent depression (βsocial benefits = 0.191, p < 0.001; βpsychological benefits = - 0.180, p < 0.001), whereas the relational benefits of VOC do not (βrelational benefits = - 0.027, p > 0.05). Moreover, the underlying mechanism and paths were examined between VOC, parenting style, external locus of control, self-esteem and depression.
Conclusions: Our results enrich the theoretical framework of parents’ VOC on adolescent depression. It also provides valuable practical insights into parenting attitudes and beliefs, and highlighted the importance of VOC towards psychological benefits as a possible protective factor against depression in adolescence.
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Value of Children, Depression, Parenting style, External LOC, Self-esteem
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Background: Parenting style has been extensively demonstrated as a predictor of depression in children and adolescents, but few studies have examined the antecedents of parenting style, especially parents’ beliefs towards children. The effect of parents’ implicit beliefs on children’s mental health is still unclear. This study aimed to explore the influence of parents’ value of children (VOC) on adolescent depression, and the underlying mechanism between parents’ VOC and adolescent depression.
Methods: High school and college students and their parents were recruited to participate a cross-sectional online survey. The parents completed the VOC scale, and the adolescents completed the scales of parenting style, external LOC, self-esteem, and depression. A structural equation model was performed to analyze the multiple mediating effects on adolescent depression.
Results: A total of 963 Chinese adolescents (Mage = 17.78 ± 1.94 years, 55.5% female) and their parents (Mage = 45.40 ± 4.40 years, 58% mothers) were recruited and examined in the current analysis. The results showed that the social and psychological benefits of VOC directly predict adolescent depression (βsocial benefits = 0.191, p < 0.001; βpsychological benefits = - 0.180, p < 0.001), whereas the relational benefits of VOC do not (βrelational benefits = - 0.027, p > 0.05). Moreover, the underlying mechanism and paths were examined between VOC, parenting style, external locus of control, self-esteem and depression.
Conclusions: Our results enrich the theoretical framework of parents’ VOC on adolescent depression. It also provides valuable practical insights into parenting attitudes and beliefs, and highlighted the importance of VOC towards psychological benefits as a possible protective factor against depression in adolescence.
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