Social Support and Mental Health Among College Students
Social Support and Mental Health Among College Students
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DOI：
10.1037/a0016918
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发表时间：
2009-10-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Eisenberg, Daniel
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作者：
Hefner, Jennifer;Eisenberg, Daniel
据我们所知，这项研究是第一次在大量随机的大学生样本中评估心理健康和社会支持之间的关系。在一所大型公立大学进行了一项基于网络的调查，有1378名学生完成了本分析中的措施（回复率= 57%）。研究结果支持了我们的假设，即具有与大多数其他学生不同特征的学生，如少数民族或民族、国际地位和低社会经济地位，面临更大的社会孤立风险。此外，作者发现，通过感知社会支持的多维尺度来衡量，社会支持质量较低的学生更有可能经历心理健康问题，包括与高质量社会支持的学生相比，抑郁症状的风险增加了六倍。这些结果可能有助于管理人员和卫生服务提供者更有效地识别精神疾病高风险的学生群体，并制定有效的干预措施来解决这一重大且日益严重的公共卫生问题。
This study is the first, to our knowledge, to evaluate the relationship between mental health and social support in a large, random sample of college students. A Web-based survey was administered at a large, public university, with 1,378 students completing the measures in this analysis (response rate = 57%). The results support our hypothesis that students with characteristics differing from most other students, such as minority race or ethnicity, international status, and low socioeconomic status, are at greater risk of social isolation. In addition, the authors found that students with lower quality social support, as measured by the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, were more likely to experience mental health problems, including a sixfold risk of depressive symptoms relative to students with high quality social support. These results may help administrators and health providers to identify more effectively the population of students at high risk for mental illness and develop effective interventions to address this significant and growing public health issue.