The Moderator Of Positive Psychological Capital In The Relationship Between Life Events And Depression Among University Students

Depression is a kind of persistent and negative emotion.It mainly consists of slowing thoughts,diminished interest,hopelessness,and always with some physical symptoms.Nowadays college students are faced with many development tasks.With the constantly expanding life experience,especially employment pressure.Students face more challenges than ever before.During this period,psychological contradictions and psychological conflicts often occur among college students.They are not only high-incidence groups of mental health problems but also more prone to depression.Therefore,it is very important to explore the influencing factors of depression in college students and improve their mental health.This artical adopts a longitudinal study design and uses multilayer linear analysis to research the relationship between college students' life events and depression.Then it examines the moderator of positive psychological capital in the relationship between life events and depression.Depression Inventory Center,Adolescents Self-Assessment Life Events Scale,and Positive Psychological Capital Scale are used to test students of Fuqing Branch of Fujian Normal University for a total of six months,each two months a time.The results are as follows:1.The prevalence of depression emotion among college students is41.5%-55.1%.2.There is no significant difference in depression,including gender,professional type and family residence among college students;The level of life events differs significantly in genders,specifically in health dimension,fitness dimension and the other dimension,males are higher than females.In the specialty category,science students are higher than liberal arts students in other dimensions of life events.There is no significant difference about depression in terms of family residence.In positive psychological capital,men are significantly higher than women in overall positive psychological capital.Specifically,the difference between men and women is significant in self-efficacy and resilience.There is no significant difference betweenthe professional type and family residence in positive psychological capital.3.Depression,life events and positive psychological capital are significantly correlated with each other.Among them,positive psychological capital is significantly negatively correlated with depression and life events respectively,and life events are significantly positively correlated with depression.There is also a significant negative correlation between each dimension of positive psychological quality and depression,and there is a significant positive correlation between each dimension of life events and depression.4.The three-times track investigation shows that,during the six months,depression in college students does not change linearly with time,but changes with life events.Life events can significantly predict depression.5.All dimensions of positive psychological quality of college students can significantly negatively predict the initial level of individual depression.Among them,self-efficacy and hope can regulate the impact of life events on depression,and weaken the depressed mood which brought by life events.This research shows that by improving and cultivating college students' positive psychological capital,they can effectively alleviate college students' depression.The study reveals that the intrinsic mechanism of life events affecting college students' depression and provides an important basis for theoretical research and preventive intervention in this field.