The Relationship between Adolescent Childhood Trauma and Depression:The Longitudinal Mediating Role of Insecure Attachment
Objective:To investigate the status of depression in adolescents and explore the mechanisms of childhood trauma and insecure attachment on depression.Methods:The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire,Adolescent Attachment Questionnaire,and the Childhood Depression Scale were used to follow up 1108 adolescents three times,with a six-month interval between each follow-up visit.Results:(1)Childhood trauma and depression were more common in the adolescent group,and the detection rates of childhood trauma were 29.87%,39.17%and 38.36%,and the detection rates of depression were 27.62%,35.83%and 35.29%in the three measurements,respectively;(2)The simultaneous correlations and subse-quent correlations of adolescent childhood trauma,insecure attachment and depression were significant;(3)Adolescents'in-secure attachment played a completely longitudinal mediating role between childhood trauma and depression.Conclusion:Insecure attachment is a vital mediator of childhood trauma affecting depression in adolescents.