The Influence of Life Events on Mental Health of Chinese College Students

DOI

10.2991/emehss-17.2017.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Self-Efficacy; Life Events; Mental Health; Mediator Effects.

Abstract

Objective: This research aims to explore the relationship between Chinese college students' life events, self-efficacy and mental health. Methods: 524 undergraduates were measured with Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Questionnaire (ASLEC), General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), and Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90). Results: Correlation analysis shows significant negative correlation between life events and self-efficacy; life events have a significant negative correlation with mental health, and self-efficacy has a significant positive correlation. Analysis of variance shows low self-efficacy students scored higher than students of high self-efficacy group in life events such as interpersonal relationship, course study pressure, penalty and loss; high self-efficacy students scored higher in the somatization of mental health, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, paranoia, psychosis and other mental health problem. With the mediator effects analysis, self-efficacy is a partial mediator variable between life events and mental health. Conclusion: Life events can predict the mental health of college students both directly and indirectly through its impact on self-efficacy, thus, self-efficacy can be used to intervened college students' mental health.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yingshan Bao
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AU  - Yue Hu
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