Association of emotion regulation with depressive symptoms in adolescent girls:A moderated mediation model
Objective To explore the mediating role of self-esteem between emotion regulation and depressive symptoms,and moderating effect of social peer rejection.Methods A total of 326 adolescent girls with depression were selected and assessed with Emotion Regulation Questionnaire(ERQ),Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale(SES),Social Peer Rejection(SPR)and Children's Depression Inventory(CDI).The statistical model was evaluated through Bootstrap,and the Johnson-Neyman method was employed to illustrate the moderating effect of peer rejection.Results Correlation analysis showed that CDI score was positively correlated with expressive suppression and negatively correlated with cognitive reappraisal of ERQ(P＜0.01).SES score was positively correlated with cognitive reappraisal and negatively correlated with expressive suppression of ERQ as well as CDI score(P＜0.01).SPR score was positively correlated with CDI score and expressive suppression of ERQ(P＜0.01),and negatively correlated with SES score and cognitive reappraisal of ERQ(P＜0.01).Self-esteem partially mediated the association between cognitive reappraisal and depressive symptoms,while it fully mediated the relationship between expressive suppression and depressive symptoms.Insults in peer rejection showed a significant moderating effect.Conclusion Self-esteem mediates the association between emotion regulation and depressive symptoms,with insults of peer rejection showing a significant moderating effect,indicating that improved self-esteem and reduced peer rejection may relieve the depressive symptoms in adolescent girls effectively.
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