The relationship between psychological resilience, neuroticism, attentional bias, and depressive symptoms in college Chinese students

Frontiers in Psychology

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Mengmei Wang¹  Jiangbo Li²  Guoli Yan¹  Tong Lei¹  Wei Rong²  Ling Sun¹ 

[1] Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Tianjin Anding Hospital, Mental Health Center of Tianjin Medical University;Department of Clinical Psychology, Wuhu Hospital Affiliated to East China Normal University;Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital;People’s Hospital of Jianyang City

关键词: college freshmen;    resilience;    attentional bias;    Depression;    neuroticism;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.884016

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, the incidence of depressive symptoms among Chinese college students has been increasing. Studies have shown that depressive symptoms are related to a variety of psychosocial factors, among which neuroticism, resilience and attention bias are most notably related, but the correlation among the three is not clear. This study aimed to investigate the influence mechanisms of different degrees of resilience, attentional bias, and neuroticism in the formation of depressive symptoms. The college freshmen of this study were selected through stratified multi-stage cluster sampling. Students provided informed consent then completed a general situation questionnaire and four scales: the Chinese version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Attention to Positive and Negative Information Scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and the Zung Self-Rating Depressive Symptoms Scale. In total, 1493 freshmen participated in the research group. Our results showed that low resilience, negative attention bias, and high neuroticism jointly increased the risk of depressive symptoms. There is a significant correlation between these three factors and depressive symptoms. Additionally, strength, tenacity and attention bias all had more significant effects on the occurrence of depressive symptoms. These findings indicate that there may be an important psychological mechanism for the occurrence, development, and poor prognosis of depressive symptoms.

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