The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress
BackgroundRecently, identifying the psychological mechanism of college students’ loneliness has attracted wide attention because the maladjustment caused by college students’ loneliness is increasingly common. This study explored the relationship and potential mechanism between college students’ neu...
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| description | BackgroundRecently, identifying the psychological mechanism of college students’ loneliness has attracted wide attention because the maladjustment caused by college students’ loneliness is increasingly common. This study explored the relationship and potential mechanism between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness in a large sample.MethodsA total of 4,600 college students completed the Big Five Personality Scale, Loneliness Scale, Self-efficacy Scale and Social Avoidance and Distress Scale.ResultsBy examining the chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress (SAD) in the relation between neuroticism and loneliness, the present study found that college students’ neuroticism was positively associated with loneliness via self-efficacy and SAD, respectively, and sequentially.ConclusionsThe results suggest a significant positive association between neuroticism and loneliness, which is influenced by the mediating effects of both self-efficacy and social avoidance and distress (SAD), as well as the chained mediating effects of self-efficacy and SAD. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d8804a37c2645168a7c28f527a860432023-04-17T04:55:25ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-04-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11245881124588The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distressShuna Li0Kaizhen Kong1Kaijie Zhang2Hua Niu3College of Marxism, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, ChinaDepartment of Student Affairs, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, ChinaCollege of Marxism, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, ChinaCollege of Marxism, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, ChinaBackgroundRecently, identifying the psychological mechanism of college students’ loneliness has attracted wide attention because the maladjustment caused by college students’ loneliness is increasingly common. This study explored the relationship and potential mechanism between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness in a large sample.MethodsA total of 4,600 college students completed the Big Five Personality Scale, Loneliness Scale, Self-efficacy Scale and Social Avoidance and Distress Scale.ResultsBy examining the chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress (SAD) in the relation between neuroticism and loneliness, the present study found that college students’ neuroticism was positively associated with loneliness via self-efficacy and SAD, respectively, and sequentially.ConclusionsThe results suggest a significant positive association between neuroticism and loneliness, which is influenced by the mediating effects of both self-efficacy and social avoidance and distress (SAD), as well as the chained mediating effects of self-efficacy and SAD.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124588/fullneuroticismlonelinessself-efficacysocial avoidance and distresscollege students |
| spellingShingle | Shuna Li Kaizhen Kong Kaijie Zhang Hua Niu The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress Frontiers in Psychology neuroticism loneliness self-efficacy social avoidance and distress college students |
| title | The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress |
| title_full | The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress |
| title_fullStr | The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress |
| title_short | The relation between college students’ neuroticism and loneliness: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy, social avoidance and distress |
| title_sort | relation between college students neuroticism and loneliness the chain mediating roles of self efficacy social avoidance and distress |
| topic | neuroticism loneliness self-efficacy social avoidance and distress college students |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124588/full |
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