scholarly journals The mediation of self-compassion and other constructs: Significance in resilience, depression and anxiety among students

Engrami ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Peđa Miladinović ◽  
Aleksandra Nedić
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Self Compassion

Introduction. Contemporary studies suggest present affective and stress related difficulties such as depressivenes, anxiousness and related states among students of different levels and backgrounds of studies[1,2] hardships that might appear later on, during education and professional activities, depending of the duration and mood severity[3], but also different factors that might play potential protective roles during the whole process[4,5]. Objective. To examine the mediation effects of variables positive lateral generalization, perceived social support and self-compassion in a relationship between depression and anxiety with resilience. Method. A cross-sectional research was conducted in Serbian speaking area on 147 students (108 females (73,5%) and 39 males (26,5%)) of different courses and levels of education, and six different hypothethical single mediator models were examined between anxiety, depression and resilience with the intercession of three mediators: perceived social support, lateral generalisation and self-compassion. Results. Results indicate a non-significant relationship between anxiety and perceived social support (r=-0.09; p>0.05) so that assumption for mediation analysis was not met for furter examination for this model. Perceived social support did not mediate the relationship between depression and resilience significantly (b=0.02; p >0.05, 95% Bca CI [-0.03, 0.08]) which was also the case for lateral generalization (b=0.03; p>0.05, 95% Bca CI [-0.01, 0.10]) as well as in the case between anxiety and resilience (b=0.02; p>0.05, 95% Bca CI [-0.01, 0.09]), whilst significant mediation effect of self-compassion was observed both in relationship between depression and resilience (b=-0.24 p<0.01, 95% Bca CI [-0.38, -0.13]; PM=0.50) as well as in the case of anxiety and resilience (b=-0.23; p<0.01 95% Bca CI [-0.38, -0.12]; PM=0.48). Conclusion. Results indicate a significant contribution of self-compassion in states of depressiveness and anxiousness and its potential role in resilience and well-being, but the directions of effects is not possible to discern due to the cross-sectional nature of the research.

scholarly journals Cyberbullying and Psychological Well-being in Young Adolescence: The Potential Protective Mediation Effects of Social Support from Family, Friends, and Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Hellfeldt ◽  
Laura López-Romero ◽  
Henrik Andershed
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Victim Group

In the current study, we tested the relations between cyberbullying roles and several psychological well-being outcomes, as well as the potential mediation effect of perceived social support from family, friends, and teachers in school. This was investigated in a cross-sectional sample of 1707 young adolescents (47.5% girls, aged 10–13 years, self-reporting via a web questionnaire) attending community and private schools in a mid-sized municipality in Sweden. We concluded from our results that the Cyberbully-victim group has the highest levels of depressive symptoms, and the lowest of subjective well-being and family support. We also observed higher levels of anxiety symptoms in both the Cyber-victims and the Cyberbully-victims. Moreover, we conclude that some types of social support seem protective in the way that it mediates the relationship between cyberbullying and psychological well-being. More specifically, perceived social support from family and from teachers reduce the probability of depressive and anxiety symptoms, and higher levels of social support from the family increase the probability of higher levels of subjective well-being among youths being a victim of cyberbullying (i.e., cyber-victim) and being both a perpetrator and a victim of cyber bullying (i.e., cyberbully-victim). Potential implications for prevention strategies are discussed.

Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

Perceived social support and burden of care of male and female caregivers of patient with schizophrenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Narendra Kumar Singh ◽  
Nishant Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Burden Of Care ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference

Background: Schizophrenia is associated with a high familial, social and economic burden. Schizophrenia is also associated with a high level of disability which may create impediments on the social and economic areas of the patients as well as on their respective family networks. Families with schizophrenia may encounter problems such as impairment of health and well being of other family members, restriction of social activities of the family members and shrinking of support from the social network. Aims: The present study examined the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study examining the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. The sample consisted of 60 (30 male and 30 female) caregivers of the patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia as per ICD-10-DCR. Results and Conclusion: This study revealed that male caregivers perceived more social support and less burden of care as compared to female caregivers. Key words: Gender, social support, burden

scholarly journals Manifestation and Associated Factors of Pregnancy-Related Worries in Expectant Fathers

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane Göbel ◽  
Petra Arck ◽  
Kurt Hecher ◽  
Michael Schulte-Markwort ◽  
Anke Diemert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Expectant Fathers ◽  
The Cross

Background: During the last decades, fathers have increasingly participated in prenatal care, birth preparation classes, and childbirth. However, comparably little is known about the prenatal emotional well-being of fathers, particularly content and extent of broader paternal concerns that may arise during pregnancy beyond those focusing on childbirth. Thus, the aims of this study were to investigate the manifestation of paternal pregnancy-related worries in a population-based sample and to identify relevant associated factors.Materials and Methods: As part of a longitudinal pregnancy cohort at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, N = 129 expectant fathers were assessed once during pregnancy. Pregnancy-related worries centering around medical procedures, childbirth, health of the baby, as well as socioeconomic aspects were assessed with the Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS). Additionally, paternal socioeconomic background and maternal obstetrical history, symptoms of generalized anxiety and depression, and level of hostility were investigated, as well as perceived social support. The cross-sectional data were analyzed based on multiple regression analyses.Results: The level of reported worries was overall low. Some fathers reported major worries for individual aspects like the health of a significant other (10.9%) and the baby (10.1%), as well as the current financial (6.2%) and employment situation (8.5%). Pregnancy-related worries were negatively associated with household income and positively associated with anxious and depressive symptoms and low perceived social support. Associations varied for specific pregnancy-related worries.Limitations: Due to the cross-sectional data examined in this study, a causal interpretation of the results is not possible. The sample was rather homogeneous regarding its socioeconomic background. More research needs to be done in larger, more heterogeneous samples.Conclusion: Though overall worries were rather low in this sample, specific major worries could be identified. Hence, addressing those fathers reporting major worries regarding specific aspects already in prenatal care might support their psychosocial adjustment. Fathers with little income, those with elevated levels of general anxious and depressive symptoms, and those with less social support reported higher pregnancy-related worries. Our results indicate the relevance of concerns beyond health- and birth-related aspects that could be relevant for fathers. Measurements developed specifically for expectant fathers are needed to properly capture their perspective already during pregnancy.

scholarly journals Predictors of Mental Health in Adolescence: The Role of Personality, Dispositional Optimism, and Social Support

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402091796
Author(s):  
Iva Burešová ◽  
Martin Jelínek ◽  
Jaroslava Dosedlová ◽  
Helena Klimusová
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Dispositional Optimism ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Orientation Test

In line with the current psychological approach to health in general, mental health is perceived not only as the absence of psychopathological disorders, but also the presence of well-being. The study contributes to the identification of possible sources affecting mental health in adolescence. This cross-sectional study focuses on the role of personality traits, dispositional optimism, and perceived social support in predicting mental health in adolescence. Mental health was assessed using Mental Health Continuum, personality traits using Big Five Inventory, dispositional optimism using Life Orientation Test—Revised and social support by Close Relationships and Social Support Scale. The research sample consisted of 1,239 respondents aged 12 to 19 years (mean age 15.56 years), 54.3% females and 45.7 % males. Sequential regression analysis revealed that demographic variables and personality characteristics together explained 33.5% of mental health variance, the strongest predictors being extraversion and neuroticism. Including dispositional optimism and perceived social support resulted in a significant increase of the explained variance. All predictors together explained 46.0% of the mental health variance.

scholarly journals The influence of social support on COPD outcomes mediated by depression

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0245478
Author(s):  
Leonard Turnier ◽  
Michelle Eakin ◽  
Han Woo ◽  
Mark Dransfield ◽  
Trisha Parekh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Longitudinal Analyses ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background The purpose of this study was to explore the association between perceived social support and COPD outcomes and to determine whether the associations are mediated by depressive symptoms. Methods Subjects with COPD who were enrolled as part of SPIROMICS were included in this analysis. Questionnaires relating to quality of life, symptom burden, and functional status were administered at annual clinic visits for over a 3 year period. In both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, we examined the association of social support as measured by the FACIT-F with COPD outcomes. Cross sectional analyses used multivariable linear or logistic regression, adjusting for covariates. For longitudinal analyses, generalized linear mixed models with random intercepts were used. Models were adjusted with and without depressive symptoms and mediation analyses performed. Results Of the 1831 subjects with COPD, 1779 completed the FACIT- F questionnaire. In adjusted cross-sectional analysis without depressive symptoms, higher perceived social support was associated with better quality of life, well-being, 6 minute walk distance, and less dyspnea. When also adjusting for depressive symptoms, all associations between social support and COPD outcomes were attenuated and no longer statistically significant. Mediation analysis suggested that depressive symptoms explained the majority (> = 85%) of the association between social support and measured COPD outcomes. Results of the longitudinal analysis were consistent with the cross-sectional analyses. There was no association between social support and odds of exacerbations. Conclusion Higher social support was associated with better COPD outcomes across several measures of morbidity including quality of life, respiratory symptoms, and functional status. In addition, these associations were largely attenuated when accounting for depressive symptoms suggesting that the beneficial association of social support with COPD outcomes may be largely mediated by the association between social support and depression. Trial registration SPIROMICS was approved by Institutional Review Boards at each center and all participants provided written informed consent (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT01969344).

Perceived Social Support as Moderator of Perfectionism, Depression, and Anxiety in College Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1141-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueting Zhou ◽  
Hong Zhu ◽  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Taisheng Cai
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Partial Correlation ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the role of perceived social support in the relationship between perfectionism and depression/anxiety. Partial correlation and hierarchical regression were conducted using cross-sectional data from 426 college students. They completed questionnaires including positive and negative perfectionism scales, the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21, and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Results showed that depression/anxiety were significantly correlated with perceived social support and perfectionism. Perceived social support significantly moderated the influence of perfectionism upon depression/anxiety. These findings indicate that perceived social support may have a protective effect in preventing perfectionists from experiencing depression and anxiety.

Methamphetamine Abusers’ Personality Traits and its Relational with Spiritual Well-being and Perceived Social Support

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Jalali ◽  
Bistoun Shabrandi ◽  
Rostam Jalali ◽  
Nader Salari
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nonparametric Tests ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Spiritual Wellbeing ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

Background: Psychoactive substance abuse is a psychosocial disorder that its, emergence, continuation, and treatment are associated with personality factors, spiritual well-being, and social support. Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between personality traits with spiritual well-being and perceived social support in methamphetamine users undergoing treatment in 2016 in the clinics of Kermanshah City, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 117 methamphetamine users undergoing treatment in addiction clinics of Kermanshah City, Iran. The formed study population was prepared by convenience sampling according to the inclusion-exclusion criteria. Data were collected using a demographic form, NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Paloutzian and Ellison’s spiritual wellbeing scale, and perceived social support inventory of Fleming et al. The collected data were analyzed by parametric and nonparametric tests in SPSS v.23. Results: The results showed that 82.2% of participants had a moderate level of agreeableness, 88.1% had moderate neuroticism, 93.2% had moderate extraversion, 87.2% had moderate conscientiousness, and 92.2% had a moderate level of openness to experience. In addition, 76.9% of participants had a low level of spiritual well-being and the remaining 23.1% had a moderate spiritual wellness. The mean spiritual well-being and perceived social support scores of participants were 69.94±10.86 and 33.94±7.55, respectively. The findings showed a significant relationship between personality traits and spiritual well-being and social support in methamphetamine users (p = 0.05). Conclusion: The results indicate that personality traits, perceived social support, and spiritual wellbeing can be considered as risk factors for methamphetamine abuse.

scholarly journals Perceived Social Support and Psychological Well-Being of International Students: The Mediating Effects of Resiliency and Spirituality

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Li Yue Qi ◽  
Samsilah Roslan ◽  
Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
International Students ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: International students are a significant resource for many host countries because they increase cultural diversity within the community, offer talent and innovation to universities, and make notable economic contributions. Many studies, however, have shown that international students have lower psychological well-being. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the associations between psychological well-being as a dependent variable and perceived social support as an independent variable, and test the mediating roles of resiliency and spirituality in the link between perceived social support and psychological well-being. This is a cross-sectional study with a random sampling method. A total of 300 Chinese international students in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) participated in this study and completed four questionnaires, namely the Perceived Social Support scale, Psychological Well-being scale, the Spiritual Values scale, and Connor-Davidson Resilience scale. The results from PLS-SEM showed that greater levels of social support are associated with greater levels of psychological well-being. Resiliency and spirituality partially mediated the relationship between social support and psychological well-being. The findings of this study not only revealed an association between perceived social support and psychological well-being among Chinese international students in Malaysia but also expanded our knowledge of the mediating roles of resilience and spirituality in the relationship.   Keywords: International students, Perceived social support, Psychological well-being, Resiliency, Spirituality.

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