Hu Qianying, Zhong Yingyan, Chen Jianhua, Chen Rumeng, Cong Enzhao, Xu Yifeng
Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jun 3;16:1521224. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1521224. eCollection 2025.
Adolescent anxiety's underlying mechanisms remain unclear, which undermines adolescents' social functioning. This study examined the moderating role of mental health literacy in the relationship between adolescent anxiety and psychological vulnerability.
A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1,591 middle and high school students through online questionnaires in January 2023 in Guizhou Province, China. The Psychological Vulnerability Scale, Mental Health Literacy Scale, and Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders were used to measure psychological vulnerability, mental health literacy, anxiety, and its five dimensions, including panic/somatic, generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, social phobia, and school phobia in adolescents, respectively.
Psychological vulnerability was significantly correlated with adolescent anxiety and its dimensions ( < 0.05). The moderating role of mental health literacy on the relationship between psychological vulnerability and adolescent anxiety was left marginally significant ( = 0.07). Furthermore, mental health literacy significantly weakened the relationship between psychological vulnerability and social phobia ( < 0.05). The upward trend of anxiety as psychological vulnerability increases among the high mental health literacy group was significantly slower than the low mental health literacy group.
Those findings suggest educators should develop curriculum resources to strengthen the cultivation of mental health literacy among adolescents to promote adolescent mental health.
青少年焦虑的潜在机制尚不清楚，这损害了青少年的社会功能。本研究考察了心理健康素养在青少年焦虑与心理易损性之间关系中的调节作用。
2023年1月在中国贵州省，通过在线问卷对1591名中学生和高中生进行了一项横断面研究。使用心理易损性量表、心理健康素养量表和儿童焦虑相关情绪障碍筛查量表分别测量青少年的心理易损性、心理健康素养、焦虑及其五个维度，包括惊恐/躯体症状、广泛性焦虑、分离焦虑、社交恐惧症和学校恐惧症。
心理易损性与青少年焦虑及其维度显著相关（<0.05）。心理健康素养对心理易损性与青少年焦虑之间关系的调节作用边缘显著（=0.07）。此外，心理健康素养显著削弱了心理易损性与社交恐惧症之间的关系（<0.05）。高心理健康素养组中，随着心理易损性增加焦虑的上升趋势明显慢于低心理健康素养组。
这些发现表明教育工作者应开发课程资源，加强对青少年心理健康素养的培养，以促进青少年心理健康。
