戀愛少女之憂鬱：社會機制之探析   全文下載

The Social Mechanisms of Depression Among Junior High School Girls With Romantic Involvement

本研究主要檢驗角色重組和補償兩個相競理論，試圖釐清青少女談戀愛、親子關係（知覺家庭支持、親子衝突）和憂鬱之間關聯複雜的社會機制。前者認為談戀愛的青少女較容易發生親子關係難題，而後者認為親子關係問題才是促使青少女談戀愛的主要原因。本研究建立結構方程模型檢驗兩個相競理論，採用前三波的「台灣青少年成長歷程」追蹤性調查資料的國一女性作為實際分析樣本，剔除遺漏值後，實際分析樣本剩下977 筆。
本研究發現：一、相對沒有談戀愛的青少女，談戀愛的青少女憂鬱症狀較嚴重；二、知覺家庭支持方面，談戀愛的青少女1 年後的知覺家庭支持較差，進而較憂鬱；同時，知覺家庭支持的在短期內的減少能夠預測青少女談戀愛與否；三、親子衝突方面，談戀愛的青少女在1 年後發生親子衝突之可能性較高，進而較憂鬱；親子衝突在短期內發生劇變可預測青少女談戀愛與否。換言之，就本研究成果看來，角色重組和補償皆能夠解釋談戀愛和親子關係之間的關聯。

To understand the complex mechanisms of romantic involvement, child-parent relationships (i.e., perceived family support and child-parent conflict), and depression among girls, this study examined two competing theories: the perspectives of role restructuring and a compensation model. The perspective of role restructuring considered that adolescents who involve in the romantic involvement tends to have a worse child-parent relationship when dating. However, according to the perspective of a compensation model, adolescents who experienced a lower perceived parental support affect the possibility of romantic involvement. The first three waves of longitudinal data from the Taiwan Youth Project were used. Generalized structural equation model was applied to build path analysis models to examine two competing theories. The analytical sample included 977 adolescent girls in the seventh grade who were interviewed in the first three waves.
This study had three key findings: (1) Romantic involvement in adolescent girls was associated with more depression symptoms. (2) In terms of perceived family support, romantic involvement decreased perceived family support at the next wave and caused higher depression. A lack of perceived family support in a short period influenced the possibility of romantic involvement among girls. (3) In terms of child-parent conflict, adolescent girls who have a romantic involvement tend to have child-parent conflict after a year, and it caused depression. Parent-child conflict in a short period predicted the possibility of romantic involvement among girls. In the other words, both the perspectives of role restructuring and a compensation model explained the associations of romantic involvement, child-parent relationships, and depression in girls.