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The Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Adolescent Depression: The Roles of Social Support and Gender

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  • Baoshan Zhang
  • Xinwei Yan
  • Fengqing Zhao
  • Fei Yuan

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In this study, we explored the roles of differential social support in strengthening capability to cope with stress for positive responding against depressive symptoms and further explored the moderating role of gender with a sample of 1,674 junior high school students. Participants responded to a series of scales including their levels of perceived stress, depressive symptoms, and quality of social supports. The results evidenced the mediating roles of family and others’ support in the relationship between perceived stress and depression and the mediating effects were found to fit only boys instead of girls. What’s more, the moderating effect of social support between perceived stress and depression was only found in the subcategory of friend support. The moderating effect of friend support between perceived stress and depression was found to have significant gender differences. The significance and limitations of the results were discussed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

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  • Baoshan Zhang & Xinwei Yan & Fengqing Zhao & Fei Yuan, 2015. "The Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Adolescent Depression: The Roles of Social Support and Gender," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 123(2), pages 501-518, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:123:y:2015:i:2:p:501-518
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-014-0739-y
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    1. Gökmen Arslan, 2018. "Social Exclusion, Social Support and Psychological Wellbeing at School: A Study of Mediation and Moderation Effect," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 11(3), pages 897-918, June.
    2. Felix S. Hussenoeder & Ines Conrad & Alexander Pabst & Melanie Luppa & Janine Stein & Christoph Engel & Silke Zachariae & Samira Zeynalova & Maryam Yahiaoui-Doktor & Heide Glaesmer & Andreas Hinz & Ve, 2022. "Different Areas of Chronic Stress and Their Associations with Depression," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(14), pages 1-9, July.
    3. Stephanie Lynch & Conni DeBlieck & Linda C. Summers & Anita Reinhardt & Wanda Borges, 2019. "Adolescent Stress Treatment Study: A Cluster Randomized Trial," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 28(7), pages 795-811, September.
    4. Haiyang Lu & Peng Nie & Long Qian, 2021. "Do Quarantine Experiences and Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Affect the Distribution of Mental Health in China? A Quantile Regression Analysis," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 16(5), pages 1925-1942, October.
    5. Yaqin Zhong & Elizabeth Schroeder & Yuexia Gao & Xiaojun Guo & Yuanyuan Gu, 2021. "Social Support, Health Literacy and Depressive Symptoms among Medical Students: An Analysis of Mediating Effects," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(2), pages 1-12, January.
    6. Lu, Haiyang & Nie, Peng & Qian, Long, 2020. "Do Quarantine Experiences and Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Affect the Distribution of Psychological Outcomes in China? A Quantile Regression Analysis," GLO Discussion Paper Series 512, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

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