Serrão Carla, Valquaresma Andreia, Rodrigues Ana Rita, Duarte Ivone
Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Center for Research and Innovation in Education, Polytechnic of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Sep 8;11(18):2494. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11182494.
Higher education is a context that requires students to develop academic, social and institutional tasks. As a result of this complex and multidimensional process, students tend to experience greater stress, anxiety and depression, making it crucial for students to mobilize a set of essential personal, social and instrumental resources, for a more positive adaptation to the academic context. Self-compassion is an adaptative emotion-regulation strategy and may help students to better adjust to academic issues. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of self-compassion as a mediator in the relationship between anxiety and depression, as well as stress and depression. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online questionnaire distributed through social media. Stress and anxiety were found to be positively related to depression scores and negatively related to self-compassion. A bootstrapped mediation model confirmed the existence of a significant positive partial mediation effect exerted by self-compassion on the relationship between stress and depression (b = 0.12, 95% CI [0.05, 0.18]). The analysis also showed a significant positive partial mediation effect exerted by self-compassion in the relationship between anxiety and depression (b = 0.13, 95% CI [0.08, 0.18]). Conclusions: Self-compassion might partially mediate the relationship between stress and depression and between anxiety and depression. Findings underscore self-compassion as a potentially protective factor against negative psychological symptoms.
高等教育是一个要求学生完成学术、社交和制度性任务的环境。由于这个复杂且多维度的过程，学生往往会经历更大的压力、焦虑和抑郁，这使得学生调动一系列重要的个人、社交和工具性资源以更积极地适应学术环境变得至关重要。自我同情是一种适应性的情绪调节策略，可能有助于学生更好地应对学术问题。本研究的目的是调查自我同情在焦虑与抑郁以及压力与抑郁之间的关系中作为中介的作用。方法：采用通过社交媒体分发的在线问卷进行横断面研究。发现压力和焦虑与抑郁得分呈正相关，与自我同情呈负相关。一个自抽样中介模型证实了自我同情在压力与抑郁关系中存在显著的正向部分中介效应（b = 0.12，95%置信区间[0.05，0.18]）。分析还表明自我同情在焦虑与抑郁关系中存在显著的正向部分中介效应（b = 0.13，95%置信区间[0.08，0.18]）。结论：自我同情可能部分中介压力与抑郁以及焦虑与抑郁之间的关系。研究结果强调自我同情是预防负面心理症状的一个潜在保护因素。
