a School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University , Lanzhou , China.
b Key Laboratory of Behavioral and Mental Health , Lanzhou , Gansu , China.
Psychol Health Med. 2019 Jun;24(5):595-604. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2018.1549744. Epub 2018 Nov 19.
Previous studies revealed that both self-concept and social support were associated with mental health in college students. Very few studies have explored the ways these two variables work on mental health, particularly in mainland China. In the present study, 411 college students in northwest China were assessed using the School and Society Situations Scale (which includes a social support sub-scale and self-concept sub-scale) and Self-report Symptom Checklist 90. The results showed that a positive self-concept was positively correlated with individual perceived social support from parents, teachers, and peers, and that both self-concept and perceived social support were negatively associated with mental health problems. Moreover, structural equation modeling analyses showed that self-concept fully mediated the role of perceived social support in individuals' mental health. These results suggested that all kinds of perceived support from the social environment may help the college student form a positive self-concept, and the positive self-concept may help them resist and effectively cope with the risk factors related to mental health. These results also have implications in interventions to improve mental health in college students.
先前的研究表明，自我概念和社会支持都与大学生的心理健康有关。很少有研究探讨这两个变量对心理健康的作用方式，特别是在中国内地。本研究采用学校与社会情境量表（包含社会支持分量表和自我概念分量表）和症状自评量表 90 对中国西北地区的 411 名大学生进行了评估。结果表明，积极的自我概念与个体从父母、教师和同伴那里感知到的社会支持呈正相关，自我概念和感知到的社会支持都与心理健康问题呈负相关。此外，结构方程模型分析表明，自我概念完全中介了感知到的社会支持对个体心理健康的作用。这些结果表明，来自社会环境的各种感知支持可能有助于大学生形成积极的自我概念，而积极的自我概念可能有助于他们抵御和有效应对与心理健康相关的风险因素。这些结果也对改善大学生心理健康的干预措施具有启示意义。
