ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
The relationship between benevolent childhood experiences and depression among Chinese university students: the serial mediating role of family relationships and sleep quality.
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- Parent-child alienation, peer alienation, and sleep disturbance in Chinese college students: a longitudinal study of bidirectional relationships and gender differences.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Associations of positive childhood experiences with disordered eating attitudes and behaviors among Korean college students.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Childhood experience profiles and their impact on depression-burnout networks among nurses: a latent class and network analysis.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Network analysis of depressive symptoms in Chinese outpatients with somatic symptom disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Depression represents a significant mental health challenge among university students. Previous studies have revealed a relationship between benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) and depression, but the roles of family relationships and sleep quality in mediating the link between BCEs and depression remain unclear. This study constructed a serial mediating model to examine whether family relationships and sleep quality mediated the relationship between BCEs and depression among Chinese university students. Methods: A total of 1830 university students from 25 universities in three provinces of China got recruited in this study. The assessment utilized the Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale (BCEs-10) for childhood experiences, the Quality of Family Relationships Scale for family dynamics, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) single-item for sleep quality, and the Center for Epidemiological Survey Depression Scale (CES-D-10) for depression. Correlation analyses and serial mediation modeling were conducted using SPSS 25.0 with PROCESS macro v3.4.1. Results: BCEs, family relationships, and sleep quality scores were all found to be negatively correlated with depression scores ( Discussion: The findings of this study demonstrated that family relationships and sleep quality partially mediated the association between BCEs and depression by serial mediating effects.Thus, improving sleep quality and family intervention may be effective measures to protect Chinese university students from depression.
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