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Volume 6
Journal of Child & Adolescent Behavior
October 01-02, 2018 Osaka, Japan
30
th
World
Psychiatrists and Psychologists Meet
World Psychiatrists 2018
October 01-02, 2018
J Child Adolesc Behav 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2375-4494-C1-006
Personality traits as a possible mediator in the relationship between childhood trauma and
depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents
Minli Zhang, Juan Han
1
, Huisi Ding
1
, Kaiqiao Wang
2
, Chun Kang
1
and Jiangling Gong
1
1
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
2
East Lake New Technology Development Zone, China
C
hildhood trauma has been found to be a critical risk factor for depression in adolescents. Personality traits have been
linked with mental health. However, the relationship between childhood trauma, personality traits and depressive
symptoms in adolescents is largely unclear. This study tried to examine the mediating effect of personality traits between
childhood trauma and depressive symptoms among adolescents. Meanwhile, the possible bidirectional association between
personality traits and depression was considered in the study. A group of community-based adolescents aged 10-17 years
(N=5793) were recruited from nine schools in Wuhan city, China. The participants completed self-report questionnaires,
including the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and
the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Results showed that childhood trauma experiences were positively related with
depressive symptoms and neuroticism and negatively related with extraversion and conscientiousness; depressive symptoms
were related with high neuroticism, low extraversion and conscientiousness. The hypothesis model demonstrated partial
mediation effects of personality traits (including neuroticism, extraversion and conscientiousness) between childhood trauma
and depressive symptoms. And the hypothesis model showed better property than the alternative model of childhood trauma-
depression-personality traits. The current study provides preliminary evidence for mediation roles of personality traits in the
effect of childhood trauma to depressive symptoms in adolescents. These findings may contribute to better prevention and
interventions for depressive symptoms among adolescents with childhood trauma via personality traits improvement.
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