Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Centre for Psychosocial Health, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 17;18(6):3103. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18063103.
A vignette approach was adopted to investigate flexibility of sustaining daily routines and whether and how this ability was related to mental health at different levels of financial strain. Three separate studies were conducted with community-dwelling adults ( = 1685) in the USA. In Study 1, we drafted, tested, and modified vignettes with reference to pilot data on the relevance of the scenarios and response options. In Study 2, regulatory flexibility of sustaining daily routines, as calculated in term of context sensitivity and responsiveness to feedback, was formulated correlations with self-reported instruments to demonstrate its concurrent validity, discriminant validity, and criterion-related validity. In Study 3, path analysis examined the associations of regulatory flexibility of sustaining daily routines with psychological distress and well-being, and the moderating effects of subjective financial strain on the associations. Results showed that the inverse associations of context sensitivity and responsiveness to feedback with depressive symptoms were stronger at medium/high levels relative to lower levels of perceived financial strain. The inverse association between context sensitivity and positive affect was significant only at higher levels of strain. Our findings could provide a feasible direction for developing scalable behavioral interventions for potential mental health problems, especially among those with a lower socioeconomic status.
采用小插曲方法研究了维持日常生活的灵活性，以及这种能力在不同财务压力水平下与心理健康的关系。在美国进行了三项独立的研究，研究对象为社区居住的成年人（n=1685）。在研究 1 中，我们参考有关情景和反应选项相关性的试点数据起草、测试和修改了小插曲。在研究 2 中，通过上下文敏感性和对反馈的响应性来计算维持日常生活的监管灵活性，并将其与自我报告的工具进行相关性分析，以证明其同时效度、判别效度和效标关联效度。在研究 3 中，路径分析检验了维持日常生活的监管灵活性与心理困扰和幸福感的关联，以及主观财务压力对这些关联的调节作用。结果表明，相对于感知财务压力较低的水平，上下文敏感性和对反馈的响应性与抑郁症状的负相关在中/高水平时更强。只有在较高的压力水平下，上下文敏感性与积极情绪之间的负相关才具有统计学意义。我们的研究结果为开发针对潜在心理健康问题的可扩展行为干预措施提供了可行的方向，特别是针对社会经济地位较低的人群。
