Hasegawa Akira, Oura Shin-Ichi, Yamamoto Tetsuya, Kunisato Yoshihiko, Matsuda Yuko, Adachi Masaki
Faculty of Human Relations, Tokai Gakuin University, 5-68 Naka-kirino, Kakamigahara City, Gifu, 504-8511 Japan.
Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, 1-1, Minamijosanjima-cho, Tokushima, 770-8502 Japan.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Feb 23:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-02859-9.
The present study examined the causes and consequences of stress generation in university students in Japan. A two-wave longitudinal study with an 8- or 9-week interval was conducted in the fall of 2020. Undergraduate and graduate students at four universities in Japan ( = 201) completed self-report measures assessing experiences of negative interpersonal dependent events, negative non-interpersonal events, and negative independent events at two times. At the same time, they also responded to measures of aggressive behaviors, trait rumination, and depressive symptoms. Path analyses revealed that baseline aggressive behaviors were positively associated with an increase in subsequent negative interpersonal dependent events, even after controlling for the influences of negative interpersonal dependent events, rumination, and depressive symptoms at baseline. However, aggressive behaviors were not significantly associated with subsequent negative non-interpersonal dependent events or negative independent events. These findings suggest that aggressive behaviors may have been a factor leading to interpersonal stress generation. Furthermore, all categories of negative event experiences predicted an increase in subsequent depressive symptoms, but not subsequent rumination, and rumination was not significantly associated with subsequent depressive symptoms. This research extends previous studies on the causes and consequences of stress generation conducted in the US by using specific measures of aggressive behaviors and including a non-restricted sample of university students in Japan.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-02859-9.
本研究调查了日本大学生压力产生的原因及后果。2020年秋季进行了一项间隔8或9周的两波纵向研究。日本四所大学的本科生和研究生（=201）分两次完成了自我报告测量，评估负面人际依赖事件、负面非人际事件和负面独立事件的经历。同时，他们还对攻击行为、特质沉思和抑郁症状的测量进行了回应。路径分析显示，即使在控制了基线时负面人际依赖事件、沉思和抑郁症状的影响后，基线攻击行为与随后负面人际依赖事件的增加呈正相关。然而，攻击行为与随后的负面非人际依赖事件或负面独立事件没有显著关联。这些发现表明，攻击行为可能是导致人际压力产生的一个因素。此外，所有类型的负面事件经历都预测了随后抑郁症状的增加，但没有预测随后的沉思，并且沉思与随后的抑郁症状没有显著关联。本研究通过使用攻击行为的特定测量方法并纳入日本大学生的非受限样本，扩展了此前在美国进行的关于压力产生原因及后果的研究。
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