Faculty of Psychology, Kazimierz Wielki University, 85-867 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Faculty of Political Science and Administration, Kazimierz Wielki University, 85-671 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Oct 7;20(19):6892. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20196892.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have been trying to identify which personal resources can contribute to minimizing the mental health costs in students incurred due to the restrictions that disrupted safety and predictability in their academic lives. The aim of the study was to verify if and how individual factors (resilience and positivity) and socio-environmental factors (social support and nationality) allow prediction of the level of perceived stress. University students ( = 559) from Poland, Serbia, and Italy were surveyed using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), the Positivity Scale (PS), and the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL-12). Personal resources-positivity, resilience, and support-were found to be positively interrelated and significantly associated with stress levels. Additionally, gender and nationality differentiated stress levels. A general linear model (GLM) showed that levels of perceived stress are best explained by resilience, positivity, tangible support, and gender. The results obtained can strengthen students' awareness of personal resources and their protective role in maintaining mental health, as well as contribute to the creation of prevention-oriented educational activities. Nationality was not a significant predictor of the level of perceived stress, which highlights the universality of examined predictors among university students from different countries and suggests that interventions aimed at enhancing these resources could benefit students across different cultural contexts.
自 COVID-19 大流行以来，研究人员一直在努力确定哪些个人资源可以有助于将学生因扰乱其学术生活安全和可预测性的限制而产生的心理健康成本降到最低。该研究的目的是验证个体因素（韧性和积极性）和社会环境因素（社会支持和国籍）是否以及如何能够预测感知压力的水平。波兰、塞尔维亚和意大利的大学生（n=559）使用感知压力量表（PSS-10）、简要韧性量表（BRS）、积极性量表（PS）和人际支持评估清单（ISEL-12）进行了调查。个人资源——积极性、韧性和支持——被发现呈正相关，与压力水平显著相关。此外，性别和国籍也会导致压力水平的差异。一般线性模型（GLM）显示，感知压力水平可以通过韧性、积极性、有形支持和性别来很好地解释。研究结果可以增强学生对个人资源的认识及其在维护心理健康方面的保护作用，并有助于开展以预防为导向的教育活动。国籍并不是感知压力水平的显著预测因素，这突出了所研究的预测因素在来自不同国家的大学生中的普遍性，并表明旨在增强这些资源的干预措施可能有益于不同文化背景的学生。
