Niu Geng-Feng, Shi Xiao-Han, Yao Liang-Shuang, Yang Wen-Cheng, Jin Si-Yu, Xu Lei
School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, 430079 Wuhan, China.
Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, 430079 Wuhan, China.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Aug 3:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03318-1.
Nowadays, depression has been a prominent mental health problem throughout the world. A common but negative social experience, social exclusion (also known as ostracism) is a great risk factor for individuals' health and adaptation. Undergraduate students are in a development period of challenges and transitions, so they are vulnerable to suffering from depression and negative social experiences. Against this background, the present study aimed to examine the association between social exclusion and undergraduate students' depression as well as the underlying mechanism - the mediating roles of rejection sensitivity and social self-efficacy. Seven hundred sixty-two undergraduate students were recruited to participate in this study, who were asked to complete a set of questionnaires measuring social exclusion, depression, rejection sensitivity, and social self-efficacy. After controlling for gender, social exclusion was positively associated with undergraduate students' depression. And rejection sensitivity and social self-efficacy could significantly mediate this relation through three mediating paths - the separate mediating effects of rejection sensitivity and social self-efficacy, as well as the serial mediating effect of rejection sensitivity and social self-efficacy. These results could not only deepen our understanding of this theme, but also have several practical implications for the intervention of depression, for example, relevant social skill training and cognitive therapy could be adopted to intervene the rejection sensitivity and social self-efficacy.
如今，抑郁症已成为全球一个突出的心理健康问题。社会排斥（也称为排斥）是一种常见但负面的社会经历，是影响个体健康和适应能力的重大风险因素。本科生正处于充满挑战和转变的发展阶段，因此他们很容易患上抑郁症和遭受负面社会经历。在此背景下，本研究旨在探讨社会排斥与本科生抑郁症之间的关联以及潜在机制——拒绝敏感性和社会自我效能感的中介作用。招募了762名本科生参与本研究，要求他们完成一组测量社会排斥、抑郁症、拒绝敏感性和社会自我效能感的问卷。在控制性别因素后，社会排斥与本科生抑郁症呈正相关。拒绝敏感性和社会自我效能感可通过三条中介路径显著中介这种关系——拒绝敏感性和社会自我效能感的单独中介效应，以及拒绝敏感性和社会自我效能感的序列中介效应。这些结果不仅可以加深我们对这一主题的理解，而且对抑郁症的干预也有若干实际意义，例如，可以采用相关的社交技能训练和认知疗法来干预拒绝敏感性和社会自我效能感。
