The Association Between Sexual Harassment and Mental Health Among Chinese College Students: Do Gender and Social Support Matter?

Wang, Sasa; Eklund, Lisa; Yang, Xin

doi:10.3389/ijph.2022.1604922

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“…Surprising but is expected, the anxiety in graduate students was six times than the general population (41% vs. 6%) (Evans et al., 2017 ). Numerous studies also explored the prevalence of anxiety disorder among them, while the observed prevalence of anxiety varied from 9.2% (Wang et al., 2018 ) to 86.0% (Garcia‐Williams et al., 2014 ), and the trajectory of the change remained unclear. A reliable estimation of anxiety prevalence of graduate students and its changes is essential to inform tailored efforts to prevent, identify, and treat mental distress, and to design a suitable public health policy.…”

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Global prevalence and trend of anxiety among graduate students: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

2023

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Objective To evaluate the comprehensive prevalence of anxiety among postgraduates and estimate its changes with a meta‐analysis. Method Systematic retrieval to SAGE, ERIC, EBSCO, Wiley, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science database was performed for quantitative studies on the prevalence of anxiety among graduate students published before November 22, 2022. The prevalence of anxiety synthesized with random‐effects model, and subgroup analysis was conducted by study characteristics (publication year, sampling method, and measurements) and subjects’ characteristics (gender, region, and educational level). Result Fifty studies were included in the meta‐analysis, totaling 39,668 graduate students. The result revealed that 34.8% of graduates suffered from the anxiety (95% CI: 29.5%–40.5%). Specifically, 19.1% (95% CI: 15.4%–23.5%) had mild anxiety, 15.1% (95% C: 11.6%–19.6%) had moderate anxiety, and 10.3% (95% CI: 7.2%–14.6%) had severe anxiety. And this prevalence showed a upward trend since 2005. Besides, master students suffered slightly less than doctoral students (29.2% vs. 34.3%), and female had similar anxiety to male (26.4% vs. 24.9%). Due to the COVID‐19, the prevalence of anxiety is higher after the pandemic than that before (any anxiety: 34.3% vs. 24.8%). Compared with other countries, students from Saudi Arabia, India, and Nepal were more vulnerable. The results of quality assessment showed that, 5 (10%) were in high quality, 21 (42%) were in moderate to high quality, 21 (42%) were in low to moderate quality, and 3 (6%) were in low quality. But, the studies with low quality tend to report a higher prevalence than that with high quality (40.3% vs. 13.0%), studies with nonrandom sampling tend to report a higher prevalence than that with random sampling (33.6% vs. 20.7%). Although we included the data collected based on the standard scales, there were higher heterogeneity among the measure ( Q = 253.1, df = 12, p < .00). Conclusion More than one‐third postgraduates suffered from anxiety disorder, and this prevalence had a slight upward trend since 2005, school administrators, teachers and students should take joint actions to prevent mental disorder of graduates for deteriorating.

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Global prevalence and trend of anxiety among graduate students: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

2023

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“…Fourthly, effective social support is conducive to mental health. Positive coping styles, and social support can improve the mental health of graduate students, and alleviate abnormal psychological symptoms through the gain effect [ 86 ]. Therefore, Professional degree graduate students should be provided with material, mental, information, and other support in time when they encounter studying, and working pressure.…”

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Daily stress, and mental health of professional degree graduate students in Chinese traditional medicine universities: the mediating role of learning career adaptation

Li,

Zhu,

Yao

et al. 2023

BMC Med Educ

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Background With the expansion of professional degree graduate students’ enrollment in China education, the mental health of these professional degree graduate students in medical-related majors who are under pressure of study, scientific research, clinical practice, and employment should not be ignored. What is the mental health level of these graduate students under the effect of learning career adaptation (internal resources) in the face of daily stress (external factors)? The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationship between these variables, and the mediating role of learning career adaptation of professional degree graduate students in traditional Chinese medicine colleges, and universities, to provide a theoretical basis for improving the learning career adaptation of students, and improving the level of mental health. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1593 professional degree graduate students majoring in clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and nursing in five traditional Chinese medicine universities. Finally, 660 questionnaires were returned, with a recovery rate of 41.43%. The scores of daily stress, learning career adaptation, and mental health were measured by Daily Stressors Scale for graduate students, graduate-students learning career adaptation scale, and General Mental Health Questionnaire (GHQ-20). Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the status quo of daily stress, learning career adaptation, and mental health. Pearson correlation analysis were used to analyze the relationship between them. we undertake analyses using structural equation modeling to construct the latent variable path model of daily stress, learning career adaptation on mental health. The significance level of the mediating effect was tested by the non-parametric percentile bootstrap method. Results The scores of mental health, daily stress, and learning career adaptation were 50.56 ± 10.80, 35.12 ± 19.55, and 67.13 ± 7.48 respectively. Daily stress was negatively correlated with the three dimensions of learning career adaptation: career confidence, focus on his career, and career control (P < 0.01). Daily stress was positively correlated with depression and anxiety (P < 0.01). Self-affirmation, depression, and anxiety were negatively correlated with career confidence, focus on his career, and career control (P < 0.05). Learning career adaptation plays a partial mediating role between daily stress, and mental health (p < 0.001), with an intermediate effect value of 0.127, representing 28.54% of the total effect. Conclusions Mental health, learning career adaption of medical-related professional degree graduate students in traditional Chinese medical universities were at a moderate degree, and an upper-middle level respectively, while daily stress is to a lesser extent. Learning career adaptation mediates the relationship between daily stress, and mental health partially. To some extent, it can buffer the impact of daily stress on mental health, especially anxiety. The educational administrator could take various measures to improve the mental health of professional degree graduate students. It can also enhance their learning career adaptation from the perspective of individuals, and organizations to improve their mental health.

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“…The Coping Styles Questionnaire (CSQ) ( 36 ), which was developed according to Folkman and Bond’s coping and defense questionnaires ( 37 , 38 ), was adopted to examine the coping styles of the youth. This questionnaire has been primarily used to assess coping in the context of Chinese language features with solid reliability and validity ( 26 , 39 ). The questionnaire consists of subscales (problem-solving, self-blame, help-seeking, fantasizing, avoidance, and rationalization) and 62 items, each rated 0 (agree) or 1 (disagree).…”

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Impact of social support on the resilience of youth: mediating effects of coping styles

Cao,

Li,

Xin

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundChinese youth are at high risk for depression with a significantly higher detection rate of depression risk than other age groups, which brings about a huge challenge to the mental health work of universities. Developing supportive resources that promote resilience against adverse environmental influences in high-risk groups is quite more urgent than medical treatment for firm diagnoses of mental issues that have developed into depression in the current background.MethodsA total of 665 university students in China completed self-reported questionnaires measuring psychological resilience, social support, and coping styles. The structural equation model testing on the goodness of fit of the theoretical framework was first performed. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation analysis among social support, resilience, and coping styles were then conducted. At last, we tested the mediating role of coping styles.ResultsSocial support has a significant positive effect on the psychological resilience of the youth. Mixed coping and immature coping styles have significant negative impacts on both social support and resilience, while mature coping styles have a significant positive effect on social support and resilience. Mature and immature coping styles mediate the association between social support and resilience in youth.ConclusionBased on stress theory, this study explores mechanisms that facilitate the development of resilience in young people with regard to social support and coping styles. The current research depicts an interventional perspective of building a social support network that guides the youth to adopt mature coping styles to enhance their resilience and facilitate their mental health.

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The Association Between Sexual Harassment and Mental Health Among Chinese College Students: Do Gender and Social Support Matter?

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Global prevalence and trend of anxiety among graduate students: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Global prevalence and trend of anxiety among graduate students: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Daily stress, and mental health of professional degree graduate students in Chinese traditional medicine universities: the mediating role of learning career adaptation

Impact of social support on the resilience of youth: mediating effects of coping styles

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