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KMID : 0614420130410010143
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Mental Health & Social Work
2013 Volume.41 No. 1 p.143 ~ p.168
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Structural Relations between Child Abuse Experience and Depression in College Students: Mediating Effects of Family Support, Friend Support, and Self?identity
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Lee Jeong-Sook
Goo Hyoung-Sun
Cho In-Ju
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Abstract
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This study aimed to examine pathways among child abuse experience, family support, friend support and self-identity on depression in college students. Based on the existing literature on this topic, we specified a research model and tested hypothesized paths on depression using structural equation modeling. A survey data of 1,329 college students residing in Jeonbuk area was used for this study. The analysis results showed that both measurement and structural models had a good fit to the data. Among many hypothesized paths in our research model, child abuse experience by father and mother had significant direct effects on depression in college students. Also, child abuse experience by father and mother had significant indirect effects on depression through family support, friend support, self-identity. However, the path from child abuse experience by father and mother to friend support and to self-identity, respectively, was not significant. The path from family support to friend support was significant, but the path from friend support to depression was not significant. Based on the study findings, implications for practice to improve mental health of college students and for future studies were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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college students, child abuse experience, depression, family support, friend support, self-identity
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