The Impact of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect on Depression Among Adolescents:The Mediating Roles of Insecure Attachments,Self-Blame,and Blaming Others
To investigate the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and neglect,insecure attachments,self-blame,blaming others,and depression in adolescents,a self-report questionnaire survey was conducted with 4933 adolescents.The results showed that childhood emotional abuse and neglect directly and positively predicted depression.Emotional abuse indirectly predicted depression through insecure attachments,self-blame,and blaming others,and also through multiple mediators of anxious attachment via self-blame and blaming others,and through multiple mediators of avoidant attachment via blaming others.Emotional neglect predicted depression indirectly through avoidant attachment and self-blame,or through multiple mediators of avoidant attachment via blaming others.More importantly,the indirect effects of emotional abuse predicting depression through anxious attachment and avoidant attachment were significantly greater than the indirect effects of emotional neglect predicting depression through two dimensions of attachment.The results indicated that insecure attachments,self-blame,or blaming others mediate the impact of childhood emotional abuse and neglect on depression in adolescents.Compared to emotional neglect,emotional abuse has a closer relationship with depressive symptoms in adolescents.
childhood emotional abuse and neglectdepressioninsecure attachmentsself-blameblaming others
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