| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 護理學系碩博士班 === 91 === The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among parental bonding, personality characteristics, social support, life events and mental health in adolescents.
This study was cross-sectional design. The subjects whose age between 15 and 18 were recruited from senior high schools in Tainan city. There were 12 senior high schools in total and 7 were randomly selected. One class is chosen at random from each school. There were 371 subjects in this study.
The following self-report questionnaires were used including 1. Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ-30) and Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire (TDQ) measuring their mental health, 2. Chinese version of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), scoring parental attitudes and behaviors as perceived for their first 16 years of life, 3. Chinese version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), measuring their personality characteristics 4. Perceived Family and Social Support Scale (PFSS) scoring their social support, and 5. Chinese version of the Life Events Checklist (LEC), collecting their life events during recent one year.
Multiple regression analysis and structural equation model were applied to analyze the data. As the results show that: (1) adolescents before the age of 16 who were under great care and less protection often have better mental health; (2) adolescents who have neurotic personality characteristics frequently have poorer mental health; (3) adolescents who have more social support have better mental health; (4) adolescents who have experienced life events have had negative impact on their lives have poor mental health ; (5) gender, parental bonding (father's care and mother' s protection), neurotic personality characteristics, social support and negative life events are the most important variables to predict adolescents' mental health.
The results of this study will help to understand these adolescents and may apply the findings to develop intervention for promoting their mental health.
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