背景:情绪虐待是青少年孤独感的重要危险因素之一。然而,缺乏关于情感虐待和青少年孤独感之间的保护因素和潜在中介机制的信息,这需要进一步调查。
目的:本研究探讨了自我同情和排斥敏感性在从童年情感虐待到青少年孤独感通路中的连锁中介作用,基于依恋理论和应力过程模型。
方法:567名12至17岁的中国青少年参与了这项研究。
方法:使用在线问卷来评估各种变量,包括儿童情感虐待,身体虐待,性虐待,自我同情,排斥敏感性,和孤独。为了提高结果的有效性,身体虐待和性虐待被纳入协变量,因为情感虐待可能与这些类型的虐待同时发生.
结果:儿童期情绪虐待与青少年孤独感显著正相关。童年时期的情绪虐待不仅会直接影响青少年的孤独感,但也间接地通过自我同情(包括其自我温暖和自我冷漠的组成部分)和拒绝敏感性。
结论:这项研究进一步阐明了自我同情和拒绝敏感性在童年情感虐待与青春期孤独之间的关系中的链条中介作用。这表明,针对增加自我同情和降低拒绝敏感性的干预计划可能有效地减少青少年的孤独感。
BACKGROUND: Emotional abuse is one of the important risk factors for adolescent loneliness. However, there is a shortage of information regarding protective factors and potential mediating mechanisms between emotional abuse and adolescent loneliness, which require further investigation.
OBJECTIVE: The present study explored the chain mediating role of self-compassion and rejection sensitivity on the pathway from childhood emotional abuse to adolescent loneliness, based on attachment theory and a stress process model.
METHODS: Five hundred sixty-seven Chinese adolescents aged 12 to 17 years participated in this study.
METHODS: An online questionnaire was utilized to assess a variety of variables including childhood emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, self-compassion, rejection sensitivity, and loneliness. To increase the validity of the results, physical and sexual abuse were included as covariates since emotional abuse may co-occur with these types of abuse.
RESULTS: Emotional abuse in childhood is significantly positively correlated with adolescent loneliness. Emotional abuse in childhood can affect adolescent loneliness not only directly, but also indirectly through self-compassion (including its components of self-warmth and self-coldness) and rejection sensitivity.
CONCLUSIONS: This study sheds further light on the chain mediating role of self-compassion and rejection sensitivity in the relationship between emotional abuse in childhood and loneliness in adolescence, suggesting that intervention programs targeting increased self-compassion and decreased rejection sensitivity may be effective to reduce loneliness in adolescents.