痛苦,社会支持和自我同情:大学生与心理健康的关系
Lisa Thomson Ross1, Thomas Patrick Ross1
1Department of Psychology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
Psychological reports
|June 9, 2023
概括
学生的痛苦,从麻烦和压力,负面影响心理健康. 然而,感知到的支持和自我同情有助于学生,无论他们的压力水平如何,为心理健康提供保护因素.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 学生福利 学生福利
背景情况:
- 痛苦,包括麻烦和压力感知,是学生心理健康的重要因素.
- 社会与非社会痛苦对心理健康结果的具体影响需要进一步调查.
- 感知到的支持和自我同情是痛苦和心理健康之间的关系的潜在调节者.
研究的目的:
- 研究大学生中 (社会和非社会) 痛苦与心理健康之间的关系.
- 确定感知到的社会支持和自我同情是否缓冲了痛苦对心理健康的负面影响.
- 探索感知到的支持和自我同情对心理健康的直接益处.
主要方法:
- 一项调查对美国东南部185名大学生进行了调查.
- 收集的数据包括麻烦和压力感知,心理健康 (焦虑,抑郁,幸福,对生活的热爱),感知到的社会支持和自我同情.
- 使用统计分析来研究这些变量之间的关系.
主要成果:
- 较高水平的社会和非社会痛苦与较差的心理健康结果有关,包括增加的焦虑和抑郁.
- 较低水平的感知社会支持和自我同情与更糟糕的心理健康有关.
- 感知到的支持和自我同情表现出对心理健康的积极影响,无论困境水平如何,尽管缓冲效应没有得到支持.
结论:
- 痛苦显著影响学生的心理健康,社会和非社会压力因素都会导致负面结果.
- 感知到的社会支持和自我同情是学生心理健康的关键保护因素.
- 旨在增强感知支持和自我同情心的干预措施可能有助于改善学生的心理健康,无论压力水平如何.
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