感情问题会损害少女精神健康

A new study surprised researchers, finding that for adolescent girls, romantic relationship problems can have serious, negative implications for their mental health.
据心理学网站psychcentral报道，一项新的研究震惊了研究者。研究发现对青春期的少女来说，感情问题对她们的精神健康会产生严重的负面影响。

“I found that girls’ risk of severe depression, thoughts of suicide, and suicide attempt increase the more their relationships diverge from what they imagined,” said the study’s author Brian Soller, Ph.D., an assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico.
“我发现，女孩有严重抑郁症的风险，自杀的想法和企图在增加，因为更多的关系偏离她们的想象。”该研究的作者布瑞恩·索勒博士说。他是新墨西哥大学的社会学助理教授。

“Conversely, I found no evidence that romantic relationship inauthenticity —which captures the extent to which relationships unfold in ways that are inconsistent with how adolescents think or feel they should —contributes to poor mental health among boys.”
“相反，我发现没有证据表明恋爱关系的真实性——抓住了何种程度的关系的展现方式是与青少年的想法或感觉不一致的——这有助于心理健康状况不佳的男孩。”

Soller used data from more than 5,300 high school students from the National Longitudinal study of Adolescent Health. From this data set he examined the mental health consequences of mismatches between adolescents’ ideal and actual relationships.
索勒的研究资料来自国家青少年健康的纵向研究的5300多所高中的学生。从这个数据中，他检查了青少年的理想和现实之间关系的不匹配的心理健康的影响。

The study appears in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
这项研究发表在《健康与社会行为》杂志上。

Soller measured relationship inauthenticity by comparing how adolescents described their ideal relationship in an initial interview with how their first relationship after the interview actually played out.
索勒通过把青少年在最初的面试中怎样描述他们的理想关系与面试结束后他们的第一次恋爱是怎样作对比，来测量关系的不真实性。

“In the initial interview, researchers provided adolescents with a number of cards describing events that often occur within relationships, including everything from hand-holding and kissing to sex,” Soller said.
“在最初的测试中，研究者们提供青少年许多带有描述经常会出现在恋爱中的事情的卡片，这是事情小到牵手大到接吻”，索勒说。

Respondents kept cards describing events they would engage in within an ideal relationship, and then indicated the order in which the events would occur.Roughly a year later, the respondents repeated the exercise, only this time they indicated which events took place within their relationship, and then provided the order in which the events transpired.
被研究者保留那些带有他们理想恋爱关系中想要拥有事情的卡片，这会预示事件出现的顺序。

During both interviews, researchers asked participants about their mental health.
在面试中，研究者询问被研究者的精神健康问题。