Combined effect of compassionate and uncompassionate self-responding on Chinese college students' mental health during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a response surface analysis.

IF 4.2 2区 医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY
Luming Liu, Yang Li, Qingyun Yu, Xinchun Wu, Wenchao Wang
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Abstract

Background: The initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly deteriorated mental health, especially among college students. Self-compassion has demonstrated benefits for psychological outcomes such as depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and posttraumatic growth (PTG). Notably, existing literature suggests that the protective and vulnerable aspects within the Self-Compassion Scale, namely, compassionate and uncompassionate self-responding (CSR and USR), can coexist within individuals and influence their mental health through various coexisting patterns. However, this process has not been sufficiently explored.Objective: This study aimed to explore the combined effects of CSR and USR on college students' depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, PTSS, and PTG during the initial wave of the pandemic.Method: In this cross-sectional study, 4450 Chinese college students (51.9% females, Mage = 20.58 years, SD = 1.49) completed self-report measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic's initial wave in 2020. Response surface analyses were utilised to investigate the combined effects of CSR and USR.Results: Simultaneously increased CSR and USR were associated with a slight increase in depressive symptoms, PTSS, and life satisfaction, but a substantial increase in PTG. Conversely, increased CSR and decreased USR were associated with a considerable decrease in depressive symptoms and PTSS, a significant increase in life satisfaction, and a moderate increase in PTG.Conclusions: CSR and USR demonstrated protective and vulnerable impacts, respectively. It is imperative to analyse their combined effects as an interactive system and consider the specific characteristics of different psychological responses.

COVID-19大流行初期,同情与非同情自我响应对中国大学生心理健康的综合影响:响应面分析。
背景:COVID-19 大流行的最初一波严重恶化了心理健康,尤其是大学生的心理健康。自我同情已被证明对抑郁症状、生活满意度、创伤后应激症状(PTSS)和创伤后成长(PTG)等心理结果有益。值得注意的是,现有文献表明,"自我同情量表 "中的保护性和脆弱性方面,即同情和非同情的自我反应(CSR 和 USR),可以在个体内部共存,并通过各种共存模式影响他们的心理健康。然而,这一过程尚未得到充分的探讨:本研究旨在探讨 CSR 和 USR 在大流行初期对大学生抑郁症状、生活满意度、PTSS 和 PTG 的综合影响:在这项横断面研究中,4450名中国大学生(51.9%为女性,年龄=20.58岁,SD=1.49)在2020年COVID-19大流行的最初阶段完成了自我报告测量。利用响应面分析研究了CSR和USR的综合效应:结果:同时增加 CSR 和 USR 与抑郁症状、PTSS 和生活满意度的轻微增加相关,但 PTG 的大幅增加。相反,CSR 的增加和 USR 的减少与抑郁症状和 PTSS 的大幅减少、生活满意度的显著提高以及 PTG 的适度增加有关:结论:CSR 和 USR 分别具有保护性和脆弱性影响。当务之急是将它们的综合效应作为一个互动系统进行分析,并考虑不同心理反应的具体特点。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
7.60
自引率
12.00%
发文量
153
审稿时长
18 weeks
期刊介绍: The European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT) is a peer-reviewed open access interdisciplinary journal owned by the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). The European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT) aims to engage scholars, clinicians and researchers in the vital issues of how to understand, prevent and treat the consequences of stress and trauma, including but not limited to, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depressive disorders, substance abuse, burnout, and neurobiological or physical consequences, using the latest research or clinical experience in these areas. The journal shares ESTSS’ mission to advance and disseminate scientific knowledge about traumatic stress. Papers may address individual events, repeated or chronic (complex) trauma, large scale disasters, or violence. Being open access, the European Journal of Psychotraumatology is also evidence of ESTSS’ stand on free accessibility of research publications to a wider community via the web. The European Journal of Psychotraumatology seeks to attract contributions from academics and practitioners from diverse professional backgrounds, including, but not restricted to, those in mental health, social sciences, and health and welfare services. Contributions from outside Europe are welcome. The journal welcomes original basic and clinical research articles that consolidate and expand the theoretical and professional basis of the field of traumatic stress; Review articles including meta-analyses; short communications presenting new ideas or early-stage promising research; study protocols that describe proposed or ongoing research; case reports examining a single individual or event in a real‑life context; clinical practice papers sharing experience from the clinic; letters to the Editor debating articles already published in the Journal; inaugural Lectures; conference abstracts and book reviews. Both quantitative and qualitative research is welcome.
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