Childhood maltreatment influences coping in youths with major depression and bipolar depression through resilience and impulsivity

作者：Jiawei Zhou, Jiawei Zhou, Zheng Zhang, Sihong Li, Xianliang Chen, Xianliang Chen, Huajia Tang, Jiansong Zhou, Jiansong Zhou · 发表于：Scientific Reports · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1038/s41598-025-96021-7 · 被引用次数：11 · 研究领域：Resilience and Mental Health、Child Abuse and Trauma、Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Empirical research on the link between childhood maltreatment and coping styles in youths with depression remains scarce. This study explores the relationship between childhood maltreatment and coping styles in youths with major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar depression (BD). We recruited 277 youths with depression and 98 healthy controls (HC) using convenience sampling. Participants completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF), the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), the adapted Chinese version of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 (BIS-11), and the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ). Differences between groups were assessed using ANOVA and Chi-square tests. The mediating roles of resilience and impulsivity between childhood maltreatment and coping style were analyzed with the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Among youths with depression, resilience and impulsivity were found to mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and coping style, with resilience accounting for 37.75% and impulsivity 17.72% of the total effect. Additionally, childhood maltreatment indirectly influenced coping style through resilience, which subsequently affected impulsivity, explaining 7.95% of the total effect. No direct effect of childhood maltreatment on coping style was observed in the BD group, and impulsivity did not mediate this relationship in the HC group. The study highlights that childhood maltreatment is directly related to coping styles in...