Frontiers in Psychology
Family communication patterns and adolescent depressive symptoms: sequential mediating effects of hedonic capacity and anger expression
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. Par …