ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Mood Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1606543
The Mediating Role of Family Intimacy: Negative Emotions and Resilience in adolescents with depressive disorders
Provisionally accepted
- 1Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
- 2University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Objective: To explore the relationship between family intimacy, negative emotions and psychological resilience in adolescent inpatients with depressive disorders. Methods: The family intimacy, adaptability scale, adolescent psychological resilience scale and positive and negative emotion scale were used to investigate 215 adolescents with depressive disorders who were hospitalized through convenience sampling method. Results: ① There was a significant positive correlation between family intimacy and psychological resilience in adolescents with depressive disorders (r = 0.456, P < 0.01); ② There was a significant negative correlation between negative emotions and psychological resilience in adolescents with depressive disorders (r = -0.543, P < 0.01); ③ There was a significant negative correlation between negative emotions and family intimacy in adolescents with depressive disorders (r = -0.260, P < 0.01); ④ Negative emotions in adolescents with depressive disorders not only had a significant negative predictive effect on psychological resilience (β = -0.878, t = -9.445, P < 0.001), but also had a significant negative predictive effect on psychological resilience through family intimacy (β = -0.736, t = -8.275, P < 0.001) Negative emotions in adolescents with depressive disorders had a significant negative predictive effect on family intimacy (β = -0.338, t = -3.936, P < 0.001); ⑤ Family intimacy played a partial mediating role between negative emotions and psychological resilience, and the mediating effect accounted for 16.17% of the total effect. This is a provisional file, not the final typeset article Conclusion: Reducing negative emotions and strengthening family intimacy can improve the level of psychological resilience of patients, thereby reducing self-injury and suicide in adolescents with depressive disorders.
Keywords: depressive disorders, Adolescent patients, family intimacy, Negative emotions, psychological resilience
Received: 05 Apr 2025; Accepted: 15 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Chunlan Li, lcl1973lcl@163.com
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