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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1382217
This article is part of the Research Topic Mindfulness and Resilience in the Digital Age: Addressing Cyberattacks and Enhancing Mental Health and Performance among Adults View all 3 articles

Psychological Health Status of Chinese University Students: Based on Psychological Resilience Dynamic System Model

Provisionally accepted
Junqiang Fan Junqiang Fan 1Yuxin Huang Yuxin Huang 1*Fei Yang Fei Yang 1*Yongjie Cheng Yongjie Cheng 2*Jingjing Yu Jingjing Yu 3*
  • 1 School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China
  • 2 School of Environment and Natural Resources, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
  • 3 Hangzhou Xixi Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

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    Based on the Psychological Resilience Dynamic System Model, the mental health status of 3,390 Chinese university students from 15 universities was empirically investigated with the principle of stratified sampling and the geographical distribution and disciplinary diversity of universities,. Among the participants, 47.85% were male and 52.15% were female. Regarding the origin, 42.89% of the students were from rural areas, while 57.11% were from urban areas.. Key findings unveil: (1) A prevalence of 24.54% in students has suboptimal mental health, with 18.70% and 5.84% respectively representing those with poor and relatively poor mental health conditions; (2) A noteworthy negative correlation (P<0.01) between mental health scores of university students and nine pivotal factors, including psychological resilience, self-efficacy, optimism, hope, resilience, family resilience, objective support, subjective support, and support utilization; (3) Eight factors, including grade, family economic status, psychological resilience, self-efficacy, optimism, family resilience, objective support, and support utilization, emerge as significant predictors of university students' mental health (P<0.001), collectively elucidating 57.9% of the total variance in mental health. Based on this, this paper focuses on four recommendations: giving full play to the leading role of universities in mental health education and stress intervention, strengthening the educational power of positive family ideals and role modeling, building a support system for positive social atmosphere and psychological counseling, and improving the self-shaping ability of university students' psychological resilience and positive psychological capital. These recommendations aspire to better promote the mental health of university students and provide a strength reserve for psychological problem intervention.

    Keywords: Chinese university students, Mental Health, psychological resilience, self-efficacy, social support

    Received: 05 Feb 2024; Accepted: 06 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Fan, Huang, Yang, Cheng and Yu. 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) or licensor 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.

    * Correspondence:
    Yuxin Huang, School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China
    Fei Yang, School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China
    Yongjie Cheng, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, Zhejiang Province, China
    Jingjing Yu, Hangzhou Xixi Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

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