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Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model

OBJECTIVE: Self-concept clarity as an inducing factor of depressive symptoms has been confirmed in previous studies. However, little is known about how and when it induces depressive symptoms in nursing students. The study is to examine the potential mediating role of meaning in life and the moderat...

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Autores principales: Hong, Youjuan, Zhang, Xuan, Wu, Weiwei, Chen, Jingjing, Lin, Yan, Zhao, Junyu, Xiao, Huimin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36524192
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1003587
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author Hong, Youjuan
Zhang, Xuan
Wu, Weiwei
Chen, Jingjing
Lin, Yan
Zhao, Junyu
Xiao, Huimin
author_facet Hong, Youjuan
Zhang, Xuan
Wu, Weiwei
Chen, Jingjing
Lin, Yan
Zhao, Junyu
Xiao, Huimin
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description OBJECTIVE: Self-concept clarity as an inducing factor of depressive symptoms has been confirmed in previous studies. However, little is known about how and when it induces depressive symptoms in nursing students. The study is to examine the potential mediating role of meaning in life and the moderation of emotion regulation ability in the association between self-concept clarity and depressive symptoms among college nursing students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample of 488 college nursing students participated in this study Southeast China. The Chinese adaptations of Self-concept clarity Scale, Sense of life Scale, Depression scale, Emotion regulation scale were used. Mediation and moderation analyses were carried out in the SPSS macro PROCESS. RESULTS: Self-concept clarity was significantly and negatively associated with depression in nursing students, meaning in life had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between self-concept clarity and depression. Furthermore, emotion regulation ability moderated the direct effect of self-concept clarity on depression. CONCLUSION: The findings enrich the knowledge of the mediating and moderating mechanisms to explain the association between self-concept clarity and depression in nursing students. There have been proposed interventions concerning increasing self-concept clarity, meaning in life and emotion regulation ability training which could help help reduce the depression among nursing students.
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spelling pubmed-97451212022-12-14 Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model Hong, Youjuan Zhang, Xuan Wu, Weiwei Chen, Jingjing Lin, Yan Zhao, Junyu Xiao, Huimin Front Psychol Psychology OBJECTIVE: Self-concept clarity as an inducing factor of depressive symptoms has been confirmed in previous studies. However, little is known about how and when it induces depressive symptoms in nursing students. The study is to examine the potential mediating role of meaning in life and the moderation of emotion regulation ability in the association between self-concept clarity and depressive symptoms among college nursing students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample of 488 college nursing students participated in this study Southeast China. The Chinese adaptations of Self-concept clarity Scale, Sense of life Scale, Depression scale, Emotion regulation scale were used. Mediation and moderation analyses were carried out in the SPSS macro PROCESS. RESULTS: Self-concept clarity was significantly and negatively associated with depression in nursing students, meaning in life had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between self-concept clarity and depression. Furthermore, emotion regulation ability moderated the direct effect of self-concept clarity on depression. CONCLUSION: The findings enrich the knowledge of the mediating and moderating mechanisms to explain the association between self-concept clarity and depression in nursing students. There have been proposed interventions concerning increasing self-concept clarity, meaning in life and emotion regulation ability training which could help help reduce the depression among nursing students. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9745121/ /pubmed/36524192 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1003587 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hong, Zhang, Wu, Chen, Lin, Zhao and Xiao. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Hong, Youjuan
Zhang, Xuan
Wu, Weiwei
Chen, Jingjing
Lin, Yan
Zhao, Junyu
Xiao, Huimin
Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model
title Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model
title_full Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model
title_fullStr Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model
title_full_unstemmed Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model
title_short Relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: Testing a moderated mediation model
title_sort relationships among nursing students’ self-concept clarity, meaning in life, emotion regulation ability and depression: testing a moderated mediation model
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36524192
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1003587
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