Effects of psychological capital on adolescent depression
MA Hong-li
LEI Mei-ying
LIU Geng
CHEN Hai-yan
LI Jie-feng
JIANG Min-zhen
LI Jie
LI Hong-zheng
Abstract：Objective To investigate the impact of psychological capital on adolescent depression , and the func-tion mechanism of psychological capital .Methods A sample of 1 200 adolescent students was assessed with Positive Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PPQ) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES -D).Re-sults The psychological capital score were higher with boy , only child, un -left -behind children and complete family children; which suggested lower depression score .There were significant differences between genders , between left -be-hind or not and between complete family or not in depression score .Significant differences were revealed in depression grade (no depression, may have depression, depression) among psychological capital and its four dimensions .The psy-chological capital and its four dimensions (self -efficacy, resiliency, hope, optimism) were negatively correlated with de-pression, and accounted for 26% covariance of depression .Conclusion Psychological capital could alleviate depression .
Keywords：adolescentpsychological capitaldepression
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 27-29 )