What is it about?
A cross-sectional survey employing convenience sampling was conducted, which recruited 618 Grade 5 and 8 students from three primary schools and two secondary schools in Hong Kong, China. Parent-child triangulation was positively correlated with adolescents’ depressive symptoms while self-acceptance, positive relation, and personal growth were negatively correlated with early adolescents’ depressive symptoms. Only positive relation mediated the relationship between parent-child triangulation and adolescents’ depressive symptoms, and this mediating pathway existed for the female sample only.
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Why is it important?
This study aims to (1) investigate the relationship between parent-child triangulation and early adolescents’ depressive symptoms, and (2) examine whether such relationship was mediated by early adolescents’ protective factors, i.e. self-acceptance, positive relation, and personal growth.
Perspectives
The results of this study imply that although exposure to parent-child triangulation adversely impacts adolescents’ interpersonal relationships, even the decreased level of the positive relation to some extent protects them against the negative consequences of parent-child triangulation.
Sylvia Kwok
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This page is a summary of: The relationship between parent-child triangulation and early adolescent depression in Hong Kong: The mediating roles of self-acceptance, positive relations and personal growth, Children and Youth Services Review, February 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104676.
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