School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Binzhou Medical University, 346 Guanhai Road, Yantai 264003, China.
Liaocheng Fourth People's Hospital, 49 North Huayuan Road, Liaocheng 252002, China.
J Affect Disord. 2023 Apr 14;327:285-291. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.099. Epub 2023 Feb 8.
Learned helplessness may be the underlying cause of poor mental health status among college students during the COVID-19 lockdown, and self-compassion as a positive psychological quality may influence the link between learned helplessness and mental health.
A sample of 869 Chinese college students (443 male and 426 female), with a mean age of 20.03 (SD = 1.68), completed the Learned Helplessness Scale (LHS), Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), and DASS-21. The moderating effect of self-compassion on the relationship between learned helplessness and anxiety, depression, and stress were calculated.
The interaction term between learned helplessness and self-compassion has a significant coefficient on anxiety, depression, and stress, pointing out self-compassion as a moderator of the association between learned helplessness and adverse mental health.
In the absence of longitudinal data or experimental manipulations, cross-sectional methods cannot verify causal conclusions among the study variables. The analysing results are based only on self-reported data.
The present study contributes to a deeper understanding of how learned helplessness and self-compassion during COVID-19 contribute to adverse mental health. The findings suggest that adverse mental health during lockdown is significantly associated with learned helplessness and that self-compassion can buffer this effect, contributing to future psychotherapy and clinical research. Future studies should examine the relationship through a longitudinal design to sort out whether self-compassion is a protective factor against learned helplessness or a moderator of the effects of learned helplessness on mental health.
在 COVID-19 封锁期间，习得性无助可能是大学生心理健康状况不佳的根本原因，而自我同情作为一种积极的心理品质，可能会影响习得性无助与心理健康之间的联系。
本研究选取了 869 名中国大学生（443 名男生，426 名女生）作为研究对象，平均年龄为 20.03（SD=1.68），完成了习得性无助量表（LHS）、自我同情量表（SCS）和 DASS-21。计算了自我同情对习得性无助与焦虑、抑郁和压力之间关系的调节作用。
习得性无助和自我同情的交互项对焦虑、抑郁和压力有显著的系数，表明自我同情是习得性无助与不良心理健康之间关联的调节因素。
由于缺乏纵向数据或实验操作，横断面方法无法验证研究变量之间的因果结论。分析结果仅基于自我报告数据。
本研究有助于更深入地了解 COVID-19 期间习得性无助和自我同情如何导致不良心理健康。研究结果表明，封锁期间的不良心理健康与习得性无助显著相关，而自我同情可以缓冲这种影响，为未来的心理治疗和临床研究做出贡献。未来的研究应该通过纵向设计来检验这种关系，以确定自我同情是习得性无助的保护因素还是习得性无助对心理健康影响的调节因素。
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