Relationship between social support and positive mental health: A three-wave longitudinal study on college students
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Relationship between social support and positive mental health: A three-wave longitudinal study on college students Shiyue Hu 1 & Dan Cai 1
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Xiao Chi Zhang 2 & Jürgen Margraf 2
Accepted: 5 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The present study aims to understand the current situation and developmental trend of college students’ positive mental health, explore the relationship among social support and positive mental health.749 college students from 6 colleges in Shanghai participated for the follow-up survey in May 2013, May 2015 and May 2016. The social support scale (F-SozU) and psychological resilience scale (RS-11) and the life satisfaction scale (SWLS) were used to examine the changes in social support, resilience and life satisfaction. This study finds that the development of social support and life satisfaction of college students showed an upward first and then downward trend, while the development of resilience showed an upward trend. The mutually reinforcing relationship between social support and positive mental health was different during the college. Identifying the interaction between social support and positive mental health of college students, social workers working with college students need to recognize the important role of social support in positive mental health, provide suggestions for college students’ education of mental health, and further help them improve their positive mental health. Keywords College students . Social support . Positive mental health . Longitudinal study
Introduction In recent years, positive mental health (PMH) in emerging adulthood has attracted more and more attention from scholars and practitioners (Hall, McKinstry, & Hyett, 2016; Marino, Hirst, Murray, Vieno, & Spada, 2018; O’Connor, Sanson, Toumbourou, Norrish, & Olsson, 2017).Traditionally, positive mental health has been defined as a positive self-attitude, or the ability of a person to fully realize their potential, and a sense of personal control of the environment (Jahoda, 1959).Keyes proposes a positive mental health model and suggests that positive mental health should be used in practice as a combination of positive feelings (such as life satisfaction) and positive life functions (such as resilience) (Keyes, 2006). Some researchers have proposed that the definition of positive mental health is related to the environment to some extent (Karlsson, 2012), resilience
* Dan Cai [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
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Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum 44847, Germany
refers to a person’s inner mental ability, while life satisfaction refers to a person’s satisfaction and happiness with the external environment. The positive mental health scale proposed by Lukat, Margraf, Lutz, van der Veld and Becker (2016) believes that the emphasis of assessment is positive self-evaluation related to life satisfaction and positive function (such as resilience). Po
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