| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 輔導與諮商碩士學位學程 === 106 === Previous studies emphasized the importance of adolescent mental health. However, there is no scholar focusing on adolescent mental health in Taiwan, and the long-term impacts of parenting on adolescents’ mental health. In the light of this, the paper aimed to explore three research issues: What’s the developmental trajectory of mental health from early to late adolescence? What’s the influence of parenting and contextual factors on adolescents’ mental health? Do gender differences exist in the relationships between influential factors and mental health?
Using the data of Taiwan Youth Project (TYP) conducted by Academia Sinica, this study employed the panel data from the first wave to the sixth wave. Participants included 2,690 adolescents from the first-grade of junior high school to the third-grade of high school covering the entire adolescence. Results indicated: 1. Developmental trajectory of adolescent mental health is a nonlinear growth curve, and the level of depressive symptoms is similar to S curve. 2. There are significant individual differences in both of initial status and growth rate among adolescents, and initial status and growth rate are positive related. 3. The depressive symptoms are autoregressive, the higher depression from the previous wave, the higher growth in depression of later waves, which reveals the adolescent depression getting worse and worse over time. 4. In parenting, harsh discipline has significant positive effects on the initial status and growth rate of depressive symptoms. On the other hand, parental support and parental monitoring have significant positive effects only on the initial status of depressive symptoms. 5. In contextual factors, Socioeconomic Status has no significant effects on the initial status and growth rate of depressive symptoms. But, academic performance has significant positive effects on the initial status and growth rate of depressive symptoms. 6. The influences of parental monitoring, harsh discipline, and academic performance on the initial status of depressive symptoms exist gender differences, the influences on female adolescents are higher than male adolescents.
In conclusion, the study discussed the implications of the results and provided suggestions on education practices and future researches.
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