大学新生的人生意义与抑郁:交互效应与中介效应

doi:10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.04.12

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 基于Frankl(1963)的意义疗法理论观点和Steger等(2006)提出的人生意义双维构念, 考察人生意义对大学新生抑郁的影响机制, 分析其中可能存在的交互效应和中介效应。采用问卷法调查了某东部省会城市1所理工科大学、1所综合性大学的435名新生, 结果表明:(1)大学新生的意义体验与无聊倾向、抑郁负相关, 与希望正相关;意义寻求与意义体验、抑郁的相关均不显著;(2)意义体验和意义寻求对抑郁具有交互效应, 对意义寻求较低的个体, 意义体验的保护作用更强;(3)意义体验通过无聊倾向和希望的并行多重中介效应影响抑郁, 且无聊倾向的中介效应显著强于希望。

关键词: 大学新生, 意义体验, 意义寻求, 无聊倾向, 希望, 抑郁

Abstract: On the basis of Frankl(1963)'s logotherapy perspective and Steger et al(2006)'s dual construct of meaning in life (i.e., presence of meaning, POM, and search for meaning, SFM), this paper aims to explore the mechanism underlying the effect of meaning in life on college freshmen's depression and testify possible interacting and mediating effects. A battery of questionnaires was administered to 435 college freshmen from a college of science and technology and a comprehensive college in a provincial capital in East China, and the results showed that: (1)Freshmen's POM was negatively associated with boredom proneness and depression but positively associated with hope. Nevertheless, the correlations between SFM and POM as well as SFM and depression were non-significant statistically. (2)The interacting effect of POM and SFM on depression was proven significant, that is, POM played an optimal protective role against depression especially among those who were on a relatively low level of SFM. (3)Boredom proneness and hope served as parallel multiple mediators within the POM-depression process, with the mediating effect of boredom proneness more salient than hope.

Key words: college freshmen, presence of meaning, search for meaning, boredom proneness, hope, depression

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朱海腾, 姚小雪. 大学新生的人生意义与抑郁:交互效应与中介效应[J]. 心理发展与教育, 2015, 31(4): 475-484.

ZHU Haiteng, YAO Xiaoxue. The Relationship between College Freshmen's Meaning in Life and Depression: Examining the Interacting and Mediating Effects[J]. Psychological Development and Education, 2015, 31(4): 475-484.

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