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The relationship between school belonging and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students: a moderated
Ai Yun1,2, Yi Cai2,3, Shuang Li4
1Mental Health Education and Counseling Center, Chongqing Chemical Industry Vocational College, Chongqing, China.
Objective:
To explore the relationship and mechanism between school belonging and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students.
Methods:
A total of 440 Chinese college students were surveyed using the Chinese version of the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (PSSM-CR), the Short Version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10), the Self-Consistency and Congruence Scale (SCCS), the Schutte Self-report Emotional Intelligence Scale (SSEIS-C).
Results:
(1) School belonging, self-consistency and congruence, and depressive symptoms were significantly correlated (r = -0.53 to 0.74, p < 0.01); (2) Self-consistency and congruence played a partial mediating role in the relationship between school belonging and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students; (3) Emotional intelligence significantly moderated the first half of the mediating model: the first half of the mediating model was significant in both the low emotional intelligence group and the high emotional intelligence group.
Conclusion:
Self-consistency and congruence and emotional intelligence play a moderated mediation role in the relationship between school belonging and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students.
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