Frontiers in Psychology
Volume 8, Issue MAR, 2017

Family and individual risk and protective factors of depression among chinese migrant children with oppositional defiant disorder symptoms (Article) (Open Access)

Liu X. , Lin X.* , Zhou Q. , Zhou N. , Li Y. , Lin D.
  • a Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • b Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • c Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
  • d Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • e Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • f Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Abstract

Migrant children reached 35.81 million in China and were vulnerable to serious emotional problems including depression. The present study aimed to identify the family and individual risk and protective factors for depression in an at-risk sample of Chinese migrant children. Participants were 368 children (9.47 ± 1.46 years old, 73.4% boys) who had at least one symptom of Oppositional Defiant Disorder symptoms (ODD) and their parents in Mainland China. Risk and protective factors within both family (i.e., family maltreatment and family functioning) and individual (i.e., automatic thoughts and resilience) perspectives. Family maltreatment and negative automatic thoughts served as risk factors in relation to children's depression. Further, automatic thoughts mediated the relationship between family maltreatment and children's depression. Family functioning (cohesion, but bot adaptability) and individual resilience could buffer the effects of risk factors in the Structure Emotion Model such that both cohesion and resilience moderated the relationship between family maltreatment and children's automatic thoughts only. Our findings highlighted the urgent need to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors of both family and child individual characteristics in prevention and intervention depression among migrant children with ODD symptoms in China. © 2017 Liu, Lin, Zhou, Zhou, Li and Lin.

Author Keywords

Protective factors Family factors risk factors Oppositional defiant disorder symptoms Migrant Children individual factors

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018312764&doi=10.3389%2ffpsyg.2017.00508&partnerID=40&md5=06cdbcb97850f980b9a2e5d9a76249d6
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00508
ISSN: 16641078
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English