Social relationships and mental health are functionally integrated throughout the lifespan. Although recent laboratory-based research has begun to reveal psychological pathways linking social interaction, interdependence, bonding and wellbeing, more evidence is needed to integrate and understand the potential significance of these accounts for real-world events and interventions. In a questionnaire-based, repeated measures design, we measured the wellbeing of 13- to 19-year-old participants (n = 226) in the Ten Tors Challenge (United Kingdom) 7–10 days before (T1) and after (T4) the event. Immediately before (T2) and after (T3) the event, we administered measures of team bonding, perceived and experienced interdependence, perceived and received support, physical pain and fatigue, and performance satisfaction. There was a significant increase in participants' wellbeing (pre-to-post event). Post-event social bonding and performance satisfaction positively predicted the wellbeing increase. Bonding was, in turn, positively predicted by experienced interdependence, received support, pain and fatigue, and the sense of having done better as a team than expected. Results provide novel field-based evidence on the associations between meaningful bonds of mutual reliance in a challenging team event and adolescent wellbeing. Team challenge events potentially offer effective contexts for forging social interactions, interdependencies, and bonds that can support mental and physical health.

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在户外团队挑战后，相互依赖、联系和支持与心理健康改善有关

社会关系和心理健康在整个生命周期中都在功能上得到整合。尽管最近基于实验室的研究已经开始揭示将社会互动、相互依存、亲密关系和幸福感联系起来的心理途径，但还需要更多证据来整合和理解这些解释对现实世界事件和干预措施的潜在意义。在基于问卷的重复测量设计中，我们测量了 13 至 19 岁参与者的幸福感 ( n = 226) 在 Ten Tors Challenge（英国）比赛前 (T1) 和比赛后 (T4) 7-10 天。在活动之前 (T2) 和之后 (T3)，我们对团队凝聚力、感知和体验到的相互依赖性、感知和接受的支持、身体疼痛和疲劳以及绩效满意度进行了测量。参与者的幸福感显着增加（活动前后）。事后社会联系和绩效满意度积极预测幸福感的增加。反过来，经验丰富的相互依赖、获得支持、痛苦和疲劳，以及作为一个团队比预期做得更好的感觉，积极地预测了结合。结果提供了新的基于实地的证据，证明了在具有挑战性的团队活动中相互依赖的有意义的纽带与青少年幸福感之间的关联。