The relationship between resilience and psychological distress of left-behind female college students: the mediating role of cognitive reappraisal and the moderating role of stress perception
10.3760/cma.j.cn371468-20221212-00750
- VernacularTitle:留守经历女大学生心理韧性与心理困扰的关系：认知重评的中介作用和压力知觉的调节作用
- Author:
Yu HUANG
1
;
Luoyi ZHANG
;
Yan DAI
Author Information
1. 成都师范学院心理健康教育中心，成都 611130
- Keywords:
Left-behind experience;
Resilience;
Cognitive reappraisal;
Stress perception;
Psychological distress
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2023;32(9):846-852
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the relationship between resilience and psychological distress among female college students with left-behind experience, and the role of cognitive reappraisal and stress perception in it.Methods:From May to June 2020, a total of 4 008 female college students with experience of being left-behind were sampled by the whole group sampling method. All participants were evaluated by the Connor-Davidson resilience scale, the cognitive reappraisal scale of the emotion regulation questionnaire, the stress perception scale-10 and Kessler psychological distress scale. The PROCESS macro program of SPSS 25.0 was used to test the mediating effect of cognitive reappraisal and the moderating effect of stress perception.Results:(1) The measure of psychological distress showed that the detection rate was 13.46% for male college students with left-behind experience, 12.93% for male college students without left-behind experience, and 11.40% for female college students with left-behind experience and 9.26% for female college students without left-behind experience.(2) The scores of cognitive reappraisal, stress perception and psychological distress for female college students with left-behind experience were significantly different in terms of grade level ( F= 3.52, 3.54, 3.49, all P<0.05). (3) Resilience(58.39±13.64) showed a significant positive correlation with cognitive reappraisal(31.28±5.09) ( r=0.51, P<0.001) and a significant negative correlation with stress perception(16.42±5.49)and psychological distress(21.62±7.76)( r=-0.41, -0.30, both P<0.001). Cognitive reappraisal showed a significant negative correlation with stress perception and psychological distress ( r=-0.33, -0.27, both P<0.001). Psychological distress showed a significant positive correlation with stress perception ( r=0.67, P<0.001). (4)Stress perception played a moderating role between cognitive reappraisal and psychological distress. The effect of cognitive reappraisal on psychological distress was not significant under low levels of stress perception( βsimple=-0.01, P=0.52). Under high levels of stress perception, cognitive reappraisal had a significant negative effect on psychological distress( βsimple=-0.08, P<0.001). Conclusion:Resilience of female college students with left-behind experiences can directly affect psychological distress or indirectly through cognitive reappraisal, and this mediating model is moderated by stress perception.
