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Women experience higher rates of mental health problems compared to men, particularly anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. This study examined the coping strategies of college-going women in relation to mental health outcomes, and identified predictors of stress, anxiety, and depression. A sample of 140 women aged 18–24 years was recruited from three colleges in Kanpur, India, using stratified random sampling. Participants completed the Brief COPE and DASS-21 to assess coping styles and mental health status. Results indicated that emotion-focused coping strategies (EFCS), particularly self-blame, were most frequently used and were significantly associated with higher anxiety and depression. Avoidance-focused coping strategies (AFCS), especially self-distraction, and problem-focused coping strategies (PFCS), specifically planning, significantly predicted stress levels. These findings underscore the importance of interventions that encourage adaptive coping strategies and reduce reliance on maladaptive responses such as self-blame, with implications for gender-sensitive mental health programs in higher education. Article Highlights College-going women most frequently used emotion-focused coping strategies (EFCS), with self-blame being the most common. EFCS were significantly associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression. Avoidance-focused coping strategies (AFCS), particularly self-distraction, significantly predicted stress. Problem-focused coping strategies (PFCS), especially planning, also emerged as predictors of stress. Findings point to the need for gender-sensitive interventions to promote adaptive coping strategies in higher education settings. Reducing reliance on maladaptive coping (e.g., self-blame) may improve women’s mental health outcomes.

We explored the concurrent impact of positive coping styles and psychological harmony on primary school teachers' job burnout, and the mediating role of psychological harmony in the relationship between positive coping styles and job burnout. Participants were 804 Chinese primary school teachers, who completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey, the Coping Style Scale, and the Psychological Harmony Scale. The results showed there were significant negative correlations between job burnout and the two psychological structures of positive coping styles and psychological harmony. Use of positive coping styles directly affected primary school teachers' job burnout and also indirectly affected their job burnout through the mediator of psychological harmony. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Medical graduate students are known to be susceptible to depression and anxiety, and coping style has been implicated in these pathogenic processes. However, the fine-grained pathways through which positive and negative coping styles (i.e., PCS and NCS) impact depression and anxiety remain unclear. This study aimed to use network analysis to investigate the associations among PCS/NCS, the individual symptoms of depression and anxiety, and their comorbidity among medical graduate students. Three regularized partial correlation networks were estimated based on cross-sectional data from 1582 medical graduate students, including PCS/NCS-depression, PCS/NCS-anxiety, and PCS/NCS-comorbidity networks. Bridge expected influence (BEI) values were calculated for each node within the three networks. The results showed the prevalence rates of mild or more severe depression and anxiety symptoms were 24.21% and 19.91%, respectively, in our sample. PCS and NCS functioned differently in relation to individual symptoms of depression and anxiety. Consistently, PCS had the highest negative BEI, while NCS had the highest positive BEI in the PCS/NCS-depression, PCS/NCS-anxiety, and PCS/NCS-comorbidity networks. PCS had more associations with depression and anxiety symptoms than did NCS. These findings shed light on the distinct pathways through which PCS and NCS may influence depression and anxiety. PCS and NCS were identified as important bridge nodes and transdiagnostic factors within separate depression and anxiety disorders and the comorbidity form, serving as protective and detrimental factors, respectively. Furthermore, PCS was more important than NCS in connecting the symptoms of depression and anxiety. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.

Purpose To examine the relationship between self-disclosure, coping styles, and benefit finding (BF) among caregivers of cancer patients. The study also aimed to identify the factors influencing BF and the impact of coping styles on the relationship between self-disclosure and BF. Methods Convenience sampling was used to select 300 caregivers of cancer patients aged greater than 18 years from October 2022 to April 2023 in Chengdu, China. The demographic and clinical characteristics questionnaire, the Benefit Finding Scale (BFS), the Distress Disclosure Index Scale (DDI), and the Simple Coping Style Scale (SCSQ) for caregivers were included in this study. Descriptive statistics, t -tests, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson’s correlation analyses, and multiple linear regression models were used. The effect of mediation was tested by the PROCESS macro (Model 4) for SPSS 26.0 by Hayes using 5000 bootstrap samples. Results There were 292 valid questionnaires (effective response rate 97.33%). The total scores of BF, self-disclosure, negative coping style, and positive coping style of caregivers were 67.77 ± 14.78, 38.23 ± 8.59, 19.68 ± 5.98, and 9.88 ± 4.18, respectively; Pearson’s correlation analysis showed that BF was positively correlated with self-disclosure, positive coping, and negatively correlated with negative coping; multiple linear regression analysis showed that self-disclosure, positive coping, and negative coping were influential factors of BF. The results revealed that the effect of self-disclosure on BF was partly mediated by coping styles. It also confirmed that the mediation effect accounted for 54.03% of the total effect. Conclusion The BF of caregivers is at a moderate level. Self-disclosure may influence BF partly because of coping styles.

We investigated how covert narcissism influences depression through shame-focused coping strategies, and tested the moderating effect of self-compassion in this mediating link. Participants were 316 Chinese international students living in South Korea who completed a battery of measures, including the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale, the Compass of Shame Scale, the depression items of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, and the Chinese Self-Compassion Scale. We found an association between covert narcissism and depression, and this link was mediated by the shame-focused coping strategies of attack self and withdrawal. Further, self-compassion had a significant moderating effect in the relationship between covert narcissism and the coping strategies of attack self or withdrawal. These findings support a moderated mediation model in which self-compassion buffered the relationship between covert narcissism and depression by mediating the link between covert narcissism and the attack self and withdrawal coping strategies. Our findings may be useful for understanding and helping individuals who have a high level of covert narcissism.

Previous studies have found that hope mitigates depression among left-behind children; however, the specific mechanisms through which hope plays this role have yet to be explored in depth. We constructed a moderated mediation model using a questionnaire to examine the mediating role of life satisfaction between hope and depression and the moderating role of positive coping style in the above mediating pathway, with 611 left-behind children in China as participants. The results showed that hope negatively predicted depression and positively predicted life satisfaction, and that life satisfaction and depression were negatively correlated. Further, life satisfaction fully mediated the relationship between hope and depression, and positive coping moderated this mediation path. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Background Antenatal depression (AD) is common in pregnant women and is associated with adverse outcomes for the mother, fetus, infant and child. The influencing factors of AD among pregnant women have been studied; however, the mechanisms of these factors remain unclear. This study was designed to examine the direct and serial mediating roles of coping styles in the relationship between perceived social support and AD among pregnant women. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1486 pregnant women who registered to give birth at a tertiary hospital. A self-developed questionnaire was administered to obtain sociodemographic and obstetric data. The Perceived Social Support Scale (PSSS), Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ), and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) were administered to measure the perceived social support, coping styles, and depressive symptoms of pregnant women, respectively. Multiple linear stepwise regression analysis was used, and then, the specific relationships among influencing factors were determined through structural equation modelling (SEM). Results The prevalence of AD was 24.02%. The average scores of intrafamily support, extrafamily support, positive coping styles, negative coping styles and EPDS reported by pregnant women were 24.16 ± 3.09, 44.52 ± 6.16, 27.34 ± 4.89, 9.79 ± 3.82, and 7.44 ± 3.56, respectively. Multiple regression analysis showed that pregnant women with a higher level of intrafamily support exhibited a positive coping style and a decreased risk of AD. Compared with extrafamily support, the direct effect (-0.16 vs. -0.10, P  < 0.05) and indirect effect of intrafamily support through coping styles (-0.028 vs. -0.027, P  < 0.05) on AD were stronger. Two indirect pathways explained 17.46% of the variance in the EPDS scores. Conclusion Higher social support decreased the likelihood of AD, not only directly but also through the mediating roles of coping styles. Social support should be strengthened, and positive coping styles should be advocated in every stage of pregnancy. Specifically, intrafamily support should be given more attention for pregnant Chinese women.

The proliferation of short-form videos on social media has become a ubiquitous aspect of contemporary life. However, the pervasive use of these videos may potentially give rise to an addiction-like phenomenon. College students, in particular, have emerged as a significant demographic engaging with short-form videos, prompting a growing interest among scholars in understanding the potential implications of this phenomenon. This study aimed to examine the relationship and mechanism of action between short-form video addiction, anxiety symptoms, coping styles, and learning burnout among college students. The sample was obtained through convenience sampling, and the study utilized data from 523 college students. All variables were measured using empirical questionnaire instruments, and all the instruments had good reliability. Regression analysis was used to test the mediating effect of anxiety symptoms between short-form video addiction and learning burnout. PROCESS macro v3.5 for SPSS (Model 5) was adopted to test the moderated mediation. Results indicated that short-form video addiction was positively and significantly associated with both learning burnout and anxiety symptoms, and that anxiety symptoms mediated the relationship between short-form video addiction and learning burnout. Furthermore, negative coping styles significantly weakened the association between short-form video addiction and learning burnout. These results suggest that educational interventions should integrate digital literacy programs with mental health services to reduce the impact of addiction and provide targeted training in positive coping strategies to prevent learning burnout.

This study explored the mediating effect of coping styles in the relationship between psychological capital and learning burnout. We used a cluster sampling method to recruit 647 college students, who completed the Psychological Capital Scale, the Learning Burnout Scale, and the Chinese Trait Coping Style Questionnaire. Linear regression analysis was used to explore the role of positive coping and negative coping, and a bootstrapping analysis was used to verify the mediation effect. The results showed that there were negative correlations between learning burnout and psychological capital, and between positive coping and learning burnout, and that there was a positive correlation between negative coping and learning burnout. In sum, positive coping and negative coping were partial mediators of the relationship between psychological capital and learning burnout. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Objective To examine acceptance of disability, coping style, perceived social support, and quality of life and to explore the relationships between acceptance of disability, coping style, perceived social support, and quality of life among Chinese patients with chronic lymphedema. Methods Chronic lymphedema patients were recruited from five tertiary hospitals between May and July 2020 in China. Recruited patients were assessed for quality of life (QOL), acceptance of disability (AOD), coping styles, perceived social support (PSS), and sociodemographic and disease-related factors. Multivariate linear regression models were conducted to examine the multivariate effect of AOD, coping style, PSS, and sociodemographic and disease-related factors on QOL. Results A total of 163 chronic lymphedema patients were recruited. The mean score of QOL was 2.23 (SD = 0.68). AOD, number of symptoms, acceptance-resignation, avoidance, degree of pain, PSS, and educational level were found to be significant predictors of QOL. Conclusion Chinese patients with chronic lymphedema had moderate levels of QOL. The QOL and specific domains of patients were affected by different factors. Special attention and targeted interventions should be given to improve patients’ QOL.