Mediation effects of attachment, social support and coping style on the links between life events and mental health / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the effect of attachment, coping style and social support on mental health in technical school students.Methods 372 technical school students were assessed by ECR(Experiences in Close Relationship's Inventory) ,Symptom Check Scale List-90 (SCL-90) and Coping Style Scale For Secondary School Students( CSS), Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist ( ASLEC), Perceived Social Support Scale (PSSS).Results ( 1 ) Life events had significant correlations with all indexes score of attachment anxiety ( r =0.293 ～ 0.356, P ＜0.01 ) ,the scale of coping style focus on emotion and the total score of SCL-90 ( r = 0.259 ～0.509, P＜0.01 ) ,and the total score of perceived social support had significant correlations with the total score of SCL-90 ( r =-0.238, P ＜ 0.01 ).( 2 ) Structural equation analysis ( model fit χ2 = 540.593, RMSEA = 0.114,NFI = 0.864 ,CFI =0.884, P ＜ 0.01 ) showed that life events affect on mental health through the mediation effects of coping style focus on emotion, attachment anxiety and the perceived social support and coping style focus on emotion had most mediating effect on mental health ( mediation effect = 33.2% ).Conclusion Life events had both direct effect and indirect effect through coping style focus on emotion, attachment anxiety and the Perceived Social Support on mental health.