Belief in God Predicts Coping With Stress and Psychological Adjustment Among College Students

Loneliness is a serious risk factor for healthy development and flourishing. Although loneliness has been revealed to play an important role in psychological health and well-being, little is known about moderating and mitigating mechanisms underlying this association, especially during adverse experiences (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic). The current study purposed to explore whether subjective vitality mediated the association of loneliness with psychological adjustment and whether college belongingness moderated the mediating effect of subjective vitality on students’ adjustment in the context of loneliness. The study sample comprised 333 undergraduate students (69% female) from a public university in Turkey. They ranged in age between 19 and 41 years (M= 21.94, SD= 4.15). Findings from mediation analysis revealed that loneliness had a significant predictive effect on subjective vitality and psychological adjustment challenges. Subjective vitality also mediated the effect of loneliness on the psychological adjustment of college students. Further, college belongingness moderated the mediating effect of subjective vitality on adjustment and had a protective effect on the association between loneliness and subjective vitality in college students. These results indicate that subjective vitality and college belongingness are important mechanisms that may help develop prevention and intervention strategies to foster students’ psychological health and well-being in university settings.

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Sibling Violence and Psychological Adjustment: The Role of Maladaptive Coping and Maternal Authoritativeness

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260520917510 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088626052091751

Author(s):

Kai Qi Gan ◽

Catherine So-kum Tang

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Psychological Violence ◽

Maladaptive Coping ◽

Sibling Violence ◽

The Public ◽

Prevalence Estimates ◽

Underlying Mechanisms

This study examined the phenomenon of sibling violence in Singapore. The underlying mechanisms through which maternal authoritativeness and maladaptive coping influenced psychological adjustment following sibling violence were also investigated. Questionnaires were administered to 287 female and 128 male Singaporean college students between the ages of 18 to 27. Results showed that lifetime and past-year prevalence estimates of sibling violence in college students in Singapore were 89.9% and 62.0%, respectively. Lifetime psychological sibling violence involvement and past-year sibling violence involvement (both physical and psychological) were significantly related to maladaptive coping and overall psychological adjustment; lifetime sibling violence involvement was significantly related to maternal authoritativeness, anxiety, and depression only. Maladaptive coping was found to be a significant mediator between past-year physical and psychological sibling violence involvement and two measures of psychological adjustment, anxiety and depression. Maternal authoritativeness functioned as a moderator only for the relationship between past-year psychological sibling violence exposure and psychological adjustment. At low but not high levels of maternal authoritativeness, past-year psychological violence involvement was significantly related to higher levels of anxiety and depression, and lower levels of self-esteem. These findings show that sibling violence is a pervasive problem in Asian countries as well, such as in Singapore. There is a need to educate both the public and the relevant authorities so that steps can be taken to protect those who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing such violence. Through elucidating the role of maternal authoritativeness and maladaptive coping, the present study also suggests new avenues for interventions to reduce the adverse effects of sibling violence. Limitations and future directions are also discussed.

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Racial Microaggression, Overt Discrimination, and Distress: (In)Direct Associations With Psychological Adjustment

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000020901714 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 551-582 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. Priscilla Lui

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

African American ◽

Psychological Distress ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Asian American ◽

Drinking Problems ◽

Racial Microaggression ◽

Adjustment Outcomes

Scholars in diverse disciplines have examined the associations between psychological adjustment and microaggression, and overt discrimination. It remains unclear whether the roles of microaggression in adjustment outcomes can be differentiated from the roles of overt discrimination and neuroticism. I examined the extent to which racial microaggression explained unique variances of negative affect, alcohol consumption, and drinking problems while controlling for overt discrimination and neuroticism among African American, Asian American, and Latinx American college students ( N = 713). Intervening roles of psychological distress linking microaggression and overt discrimination to adjustment outcomes were also tested. Among African Americans, microaggression and overt discrimination did not consistently predict psychological adjustment. Among Asian and Latinx Americans, microaggression and overt discrimination predicted negative affect via psychological distress. Microaggression also explained the variances of alcohol use outcomes among Asian Americans. Findings are discussed in the context of an acute racism reactions model and underscore the importance of considering overt discrimination and microaggression simultaneously as determinants of psychological adjustment.

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Beyond the Role of Interpersonal Violence in Predicting Negative Affective Conditions in Adults: An Examination of Hope Components in Chinese College Students

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260520938515 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088626052093851

Author(s):

Mingqi Li ◽

Edward C. Chang ◽

Olivia D. Chang

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Well Being ◽

The United States ◽

Chinese Sample ◽

Chinese College Students ◽

The Impact

With the growth of positive psychology during the past two decades, increased research has been focused on identifying human virtues that not only foster well-being but also act as positive processes that mitigate the impact of life adversities. Thus, it is useful to examine how positive processes, such as hope, may impact individuals’ psychological adjustment following adversities. This study investigated the relationships among interpersonal violence, hope, as a key human strength, and negative affect conditions in a large sample ( N = 737) of Chinese male and female ( Nfemale = 409) college students. Participants completed measures assessing prior exposure to interpersonal violence, levels of both hope components (i.e., agency and pathways), negative affect, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation. Results from correlational analyses showed that exposure to interpersonal violence was positively and hope was negatively correlated with negative affective conditions. However, hope agency was more strongly correlated with those outcomes than hope pathways. In addition, three separate hierarchical regression analyses indicated that after accounting for demographics (i.e., age and sex) and interpersonal violence, within hope components, only hope agency remained as strong concurrent predictors of negative affective conditions. The present findings in this Chinese sample are consistent with those obtained from Turkey and the United States samples, adding evidence to the more robust role of hope, and hope agency in particular, in predicting negative psychological adjustment associated with interpersonal violence. Efforts made to address the absence of hope agency may be particularly important in future attempts to mitigate negative affective conditions linked to interpersonal violence among Chinese college students.

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Psychological Adjustment of College Students from Families of Divorce

Journal of Divorce & Remarriage ◽

10.1300/j087v23n03_05 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 23 (3-4) ◽

pp. 75-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Jennifer Weiner ◽

Lisa Harlow ◽

Jerome F Adams ◽

Lawrence Grebstein

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Psychological Adjustment

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Investigation on the Physical and Mental Health of College Students Based on Statistics

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202127503044 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 275 ◽

pp. 03044

Author(s):

Jianjian Wang ◽

Guofang Shen ◽

Zeyu Wang

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

College Students ◽

Psychological Distress ◽

Physical Exercise ◽

Physical Health ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Stress Resistance ◽

Questionnaire Survey ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Student Groups

Contemporary college students face pressures from employment, emotion, and academic work, so the physical and mental health of college students has gradually become the focus of social attention. Through a questionnaire survey, this paper investigates five aspects : college students’sense of physical health, physical exercise, psychological distress, stress resistance and psychological adjustment methods. College students’ physical and mental health has been analyzed from the basic situation, differences in different student groups, main problems and suggestions, trying to objectively reflect the physical and mental health of college students and provide a basis for the development of college students’ideological and political education.

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