Intrinsic and extrinsic goals as moderators of stress and depressive symptoms in Chinese undergraduate students: A multi-wave longitudinal study.
Intrinsic and extrinsic goals as moderators of stress and depressive symptoms in Chinese undergraduate students: A multi-wave longitudinal study.
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内在和外在目标作为中国本科生压力和抑郁症状的调节因素：多波纵向研究
DOI：
10.1186/s12888-016-0842-5
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发表时间：
2016-05-11
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4.4
通讯作者：
Zhong M
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作者：
Ling Y;He Y;Wei Y;Cen W;Zhou Q;Zhong M
西方研究通过两个时间点设计验证了Dykman的目标定向抑郁倾向理论中的特定脆弱性假说。本研究采用前瞻性纵向研究的方法，探讨内在目标和外在目标对大学生压力和抑郁症状的调节作用。共有462名本科生[46%为女性;平均年龄19.06（范围17-22）岁]完成了自我报告的测量，评估了内在和外在目标、抑郁症状以及社交和学术麻烦的发生。在随后的12个月里，每3个月，本科生完成评估抑郁症状和日常麻烦发生的措施。分层线性模型分析的结果表明，低水平的内在目标的本科生报告更大的抑郁症状发生后的社会和学术麻烦比那些高水平的这样的目标。然而，高水平的外在目标的本科生并没有报告更大的抑郁症状发生后的社会和学术麻烦比那些拥有低水平。这些发现表明，内在目标可以保护经历高水平社会和学术麻烦的本科生免受抑郁症状的影响。研究结果为本科生抑郁症状的过程提供了新的见解，并为心理学家和精神病学家提供了通过建立内在目标来保护个人免受抑郁症状的方法。
Studies in western countries have examined the specific vulnerability hypothesis of Dykman’s theory of goal-orientation predispositions to depression through two-time point designs. The purpose of this prospective longitudinal study was to investigate the moderating effects of intrinsic and extrinsic goals on stress and depressive symptoms in Chinese undergraduate students. A total of 462 undergraduate students [46 % female; mean age, 19.06 (range, 17–22) years] completed self-reported measures assessing intrinsic and extrinsic goals, depressive symptoms, and the occurrence of social and academic hassles. Every 3 months over the subsequent 12 months, the undergraduate students completed measures assessing depressive symptoms and the occurrence of daily hassles. Results of hierarchical linear modeling analyses indicated that undergraduate students with low levels of intrinsic goals reported greater depressive symptoms following the occurrence of social and academic hassles than did those with high levels of such goals. However, undergraduate students with high levels of extrinsic goals did not report greater depressive symptoms following the occurrence of social and academic hassles than did those possessing low levels. These findings suggest that intrinsic goals can protect undergraduate students experiencing high levels of social and academic hassles from depressive symptoms. The study findings provide new insight into the course of depressive symptoms among undergraduate students, and offer psychologist and psychiatrists ways to protect individuals from depressive symptoms by building up intrinsic goals.