The Role of Family Environment in Depressive Symptoms among University Students: A Large Sample Survey in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the relationship between family environment and depressive symptoms and to evaluate the influence of hard and soft family environmental factors on depression levels in a large sample of university students in China.

Methods

A multi-stage stratified sampling procedure was used to select 6,000 participants. The response rate was 88.8%, with 5,329 students completing the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Family Environment Scale Chinese Version (FES-CV), which was adapted for the Chinese population. Differences between the groups were tested for significance by the Student's t-test; ANOVA was used to test continuous variables. The relationship between soft family environmental factors and BDI were tested by Pearson correlation analysis. Hierarchical l

SUBMITTER: Yu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4667844 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature