College of Pharmaceutical Economics and Management, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China.
Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province on Data Science and Traditional, Chinese Medicine Innovation and Development, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China.
Front Public Health. 2024 Nov 4;12:1458049. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1458049. eCollection 2024.
Chinese adolescents are at higher risk of depression, especially the mental health problems of financially disadvantaged medical students, which are significantly higher than those in other age groups, which brings great challenges to the mental health workers in universities.
1,280 medical students with a family poverty background in China completed a questionnaire on hardiness personality, coping style and mental health. After descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis between hardiness personality, coping style and mental health levels, we tested the mediation of coping style and the moderating effects of gender.
Hardiness personality significantly positively affected the financially-struggling medical student's mental health level. Positive coping style had a significant positive impact on hardiness personality and mental health level, while negative coping style had a significant negative effect on mental health level. Positive coping and negative coping are the mediators between financially-struggling medical students' hardy personalities and mental health levels. In medical students with a family poverty background, gender plays a regulatory role in coping style and mental health levels. In medical students with a family poverty background, gender plays a moderate role in coping style and mental health levels.
This study adds some knowledge about the effects of hardiness personality on individual mental health. It makes new recommendations for improving the mental health status of vulnerable groups, while it can support future investigations by scholars and educators on how to improve the mental health of students under learning and financial-related stress.
中国青少年患抑郁症的风险较高，尤其是经济困难的医学生的心理健康问题，明显高于其他年龄段的人群，这给高校心理健康工作者带来了巨大挑战。
在中国，1280 名有家庭贫困背景的医学生完成了一份关于坚韧人格、应对方式和心理健康的问卷。在对坚韧人格、应对方式和心理健康水平进行描述性统计和 Pearson 相关分析后，我们测试了应对方式的中介作用和性别调节作用。
坚韧人格对经济困难医学生的心理健康水平有显著的积极影响。积极的应对方式对坚韧人格和心理健康水平有显著的正向影响，而消极的应对方式对心理健康水平有显著的负向影响。积极应对和消极应对是经济困难医学生坚韧人格和心理健康水平之间的中介变量。在家庭贫困的医学生中，性别在应对方式和心理健康水平之间起着调节作用。在家庭贫困的医学生中，性别在应对方式和心理健康水平之间起着中等程度的调节作用。
本研究为坚韧人格对个体心理健康的影响提供了一些知识。它为改善弱势群体的心理健康状况提出了新的建议，同时也为学者和教育工作者未来研究如何改善在学习和经济相关压力下的学生心理健康状况提供了支持。
