| Adolescence is an important developmental stage of rapid physical and mental development,and a period of high incidence of psychological conflicts,mood swings and problematic behaviours,which can easily lead to mental health problems in unfavourable situations.Chinese social work has won good development in the context of social transformation.The youth social work perspective emphasises the subjectivity of adolescents,focuses on the development of their strengths and potential,and believes that adolescents have the ability and resources to solve problems.In recent years,the incidence of depression,a common psychological adjustment problem among adolescents,has been on a significant rise in the adolescent population,and the incidence is higher among rural adolescents than urban ones.Therefore,in order to clarify the influencing factors and mechanisms of depression among rural adolescents,and to explore the path of social work interventions for depression among rural adolescents,this study examined the influence of parental psychological control on depression among rural adolescents and the role of resilience in the relationship between parental psychological control and depression among rural adolescents,based on self-determination theory and the quality-stress model of depression,using two rounds of follow-up data.This study uses two rounds of follow-up data to examine the moderating role of parental psychological control on rural adolescents’ depression and the moderating role of resilience between parental psychological control and rural adolescents’ depression.In this study,two questionnaires(T1 and T2)were administered one year apart to 1763 junior high school students from two rural middle schools in a city in southwest China using the Parental Psychological Control Scale,the Resilience Scale,and the Flow Adjustment Centre Depression Scale through a whole-group sampling method.The results of the study showed that :(1)levels of parental psychological control and resilience decreased as well as levels of increased over time in rural adolescents.(2)The correlations between parental psychological control,resilience and depression were significant at both measurement time points,and the three correlations were both simultaneous and secondary,with a degree of relative stability.Cross-sectional analysis showed that parental psychological control was significantly negatively related to resilience,parental psychological control was significantly positively related to depression,and resilience was significantly negatively related to depression at both time points;longitudinal analysis showed that there was a significant positive longitudinal effect of parental psychological control at T1 on depression levels among rural adolescents at T2.In addition,there was no significant difference between the longitudinal effects of father’s and mother’s psychological control on rural adolescents’ depression,but the degree of mother’s psychological control was slightly higher than that of father’s psychological control.(3)Resilience moderated the longitudinal relationship between parental psychological control and depression in rural adolescents,i.e.,for rural adolescents with low levels of resilience,parental psychological control had a significant positive longitudinal predictive effect on depression;for rural adolescents with moderate levels of resilience,parental psychological control had a significant positive longitudinal predictive effect on depression,but the predictive effect was small;and for rural adolescents with high levels of resilience,parental psychological control had a significant positive longitudinal predictive effect on depression.For rural adolescents with high levels of resilience,parental psychological control was not a significant longitudinal predictor of depression.There are important practical implications from the findings of this study,which found that parental psychological control is a key risk factor for depression in rural adolescents,while resilience is an important protective factor against depression in rural adolescents.These findings emphasise the need to focus not only on the specificities of rural adolescents’ autonomy development,but also on the interaction of external supportive environments such as family,school and community in combating depression among rural adolescents.Based on the findings,this study breaks away from the traditional problem-oriented medical and psychological perspectives and proposes social work strategies to prevent or intervene in rural adolescents’ depression from the perspectives of reducing the occurrence of parental psychological control and enhancing the level of individual resilience from both internal and external perspectives.The aim is to build a positive "family-school-community" support network for rural youths,help rural parents develop correct parenting strategies,actively nurture the resilience of rural youths,and promote the healthy growth and all-round development of rural youths. |
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