ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Family communication patterns and adolescent depressive symptoms: sequential mediating effects of hedonic capacity and anger expression.
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Objective: Depression is increasingly prevalent among adolescents, highlighting the need to explore its underlying developmental mechanisms to inform effective prevention. This study examined how different family communication patterns longitudinally impact adolescent depressive symptoms, with a focus on the mediating roles of diminished hedonic capacity and anger expression. Method: A total of 729 Chinese adolescents from five high schools participated in this two-wave longitudinal study over a six-month period. Participants completed the Family Communication Patterns Scale (FCPS), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), the Anhedonia Scale for Adolescents (ASA), and the Children's Inventory of Anger (ChIA). Mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes' PROCESS macro, alongside cross-lagged panel analyses to explore longitudinal effect. Results: Cross-sectional analyses indicated that diminished hedonic capacity and anger experience sequentially mediated the relationship between family communication patterns and adolescent depressive symptoms. Specifically, this mediating effect existed for conversation orientation in junior high school students and female senior high school students, as well as for conformity orientation among female junior and senior high school students. In addition, longitudinal analyses revealed that diminished hedonic capacity mediated the associations at Wave 2. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that enhanced hedonic capacity and reduced anger expression may play a key role in the relationship between family communication patterns and adolescent depression, and hedonic capacity should be prioritized in practical interventions. These results support the potential value of interventions that promote positive family communication patterns as a means of mitigating adolescent depression, particularly for families with daughters.
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