ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1651770
This article is part of the Research TopicYouth Mental Health, Particularly in Asian PopulationsView all 91 articles
Association between Adolescent Life Events and Depressive Symptoms: Data from the Shanghai area
Provisionally accepted
- Shanghai Jian Qiao University Co Ltd, Shanghai, China
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Objective: To explore the relationship between adolescent life events and depressive symptoms and the influence of family factors. Methods: Based on the data of 766 adolescents in Shanghai, this study collected information by electronic questionnaire, and evaluated it by using the Adolescent Life Event Scale (ASLEC) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Results: The study found that there was a significant nonlinear relationship between life event scores and depressive symptoms, and two key inflection points were identified, 13 and 45.5. Teenagers with depressive symptoms are more likely to report poor family economic status and low education level of their mothers. Conclusion: Family factors play an important role in adolescent depression symptoms, and the research results provide a basis for preventing adolescent depression. In the future, it is necessary to expand samples and longitudinal studies to further verify the conclusions.
Keywords: adolescents, depressive symptoms, life events, Family factors, Nonlinear relationship
Received: 22 Jun 2025; Accepted: 01 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Peng, Wang, Huang, Zhang and Ge. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Shuzhi Peng, Shanghai Jian Qiao University Co Ltd, Shanghai, China
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