Abstract
With the dramatic changes in Chinese society, several psychological indicators of Chinese adolescents, such as anxiety, have also changed across birth cohorts. To examine possible birth cohort changes in Chinese adolescents, a cross-temporal meta-analysis of 102 studies (127 data points, N = 104,187) was conducted. The results showed that Chinese adolescents’ scores on the Self-rating Depression Scale increased by at least .76 standard deviations from 1989 to 2018. In addition, male students demonstrated increasing depression over time, whereas female students did not. Chinese adolescents’ depression was significantly correlated with some negative social indicators (e.g., unemployment rate and crime rate) in the corresponding years, 3 years prior, and 1 year prior to the depression data collection. It is evident that social changes play an important role in predicting changes in depression.
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