Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescents'Depression:A Moderated Mediation Model
To explore the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and adolescents'depression,4639 adolescents were measured and analyzed with adverse childhood experiences scale,adolescent daily hassles scale,core self-evaluation scale,depression self-rating scale for children and student family socioeconomic status scale.The results indicated that:(1)Compared with students from ordinary high school,those from secondary vocational school scored significantly higher on adverse childhood experiences;(2)Ordinary junior school students scored significantly lower than other grades on depression,and the vocational high school students scored significantly higher than ordinary high school students on depression;(3)Adverse childhood experiences were significantly positively correlated with adolescents'depression.(4)Daily hassles played a partial mediating role between adverse childhood experiences and adolescents'depression.(5)The impact of adverse childhood experiences on adolescents'daily hassles is moderated by core self-evaluation.The results provide new ideas for the prevention and intervention of adolescents'depression.