Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social support
The choice of coping style of recruits under psychological stress in the process of military task execution has been an important topic in the promotion of military operations and cohesion of military forces. Taking a positive coping style under psychological stress can help recruits overcome the ne...
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| author | Chao Wu Guangdong Hou Yawei Lin Zhen Sa Jiaran Yan Xinyan Zhang Ying Liang Kejian Yang Yuhai Zhang Hongjuan Lang |
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| description | The choice of coping style of recruits under psychological stress in the process of military task execution has been an important topic in the promotion of military operations and cohesion of military forces. Taking a positive coping style under psychological stress can help recruits overcome the negative effects of stress and improve military morale and group combat effectiveness. Although soldiers' psychological stress in the process of military mission execution having an impact on coping style has been studied by a large body of literature, very little literature has focused on the mechanism of self-efficacy and social support between recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the impact of recruits' psychological stress on coping style through a chain mediation model and to discuss the role of self-efficacy and social support in this relationship. Two waves of survey data were utilized to test the research hypotheses on a sample of 1028 Chinese recruits performing military tasks. The results indicated that recruits' psychological stress negatively impacted positive coping styles and positively correlated with negative ones. In addition, self-efficacy and social support mediated the relationship between psychological stress and positive coping style, and self-efficacy mediated the relationship between psychological stress and negative coping style. More importantly, self-efficacy and social support play the chain mediating effect between psychological stress and positive coping style. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac56cb92066948ebb596023112a418822022-12-22T02:41:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-11-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.996865996865Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social supportChao Wu0Guangdong Hou1Yawei Lin2Zhen Sa3Jiaran Yan4Xinyan Zhang5Ying Liang6Kejian Yang7Yuhai Zhang8Hongjuan Lang9Department of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, ChinaDepartment of Urology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, ChinaDepartment of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China69245 Troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Xinjiang, ChinaDepartment of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, ChinaDepartment of Engineer, Army 75 Group Military Hospital, Kunming, China69243 Troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Xinjiang, ChinaThe 960th Hospital of the PLA Joint Logistics Support Force, Jinan, ChinaDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Preventive Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, ChinaDepartment of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, ChinaThe choice of coping style of recruits under psychological stress in the process of military task execution has been an important topic in the promotion of military operations and cohesion of military forces. Taking a positive coping style under psychological stress can help recruits overcome the negative effects of stress and improve military morale and group combat effectiveness. Although soldiers' psychological stress in the process of military mission execution having an impact on coping style has been studied by a large body of literature, very little literature has focused on the mechanism of self-efficacy and social support between recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the impact of recruits' psychological stress on coping style through a chain mediation model and to discuss the role of self-efficacy and social support in this relationship. Two waves of survey data were utilized to test the research hypotheses on a sample of 1028 Chinese recruits performing military tasks. The results indicated that recruits' psychological stress negatively impacted positive coping styles and positively correlated with negative ones. In addition, self-efficacy and social support mediated the relationship between psychological stress and positive coping style, and self-efficacy mediated the relationship between psychological stress and negative coping style. More importantly, self-efficacy and social support play the chain mediating effect between psychological stress and positive coping style.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.996865/fullpsychological stresscoping styleself-efficacysocial supportChinese recruits |
| spellingShingle | Chao Wu Guangdong Hou Yawei Lin Zhen Sa Jiaran Yan Xinyan Zhang Ying Liang Kejian Yang Yuhai Zhang Hongjuan Lang Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social support Frontiers in Psychology psychological stress coping style self-efficacy social support Chinese recruits |
| title | Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social support |
| title_full | Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social support |
| title_fullStr | Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social support |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social support |
| title_short | Exploring links between Chinese military recruits' psychological stress and coping style from the person-environment fit perspective: The chain mediating effect of self-efficacy and social support |
| title_sort | exploring links between chinese military recruits psychological stress and coping style from the person environment fit perspective the chain mediating effect of self efficacy and social support |
| topic | psychological stress coping style self-efficacy social support Chinese recruits |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.996865/full |
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