Mediating effects of coping styles on the relationship between personality traits and well-being among students in a vocational college
LIU Pei-jun1,2, ZHANG Wei-dong2, RONG Feng2, XU Zuo-jie2, MENG Xiu-hong1
1. Department of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; 2. West Anhui Health Vocational College, Liu'an, Anhui 237005, China
Abstract：Objective To explore the mediating role of coping styles in the relationship between personality characteristics and well-being. Methods A cluster sampling method was used to select freshmen and sophomores in a vocational college in Liu'an city, Anhui province. A unified anonymous questionnaire survey was performed to evaluate personality characteristics, coping styles and subjective well-being. Bootstrap program and PROCESS software were employed to examine the mediating role of coping styles in the association of personality traits and well-being. Results Among 3,183 college students, the scores of neuroticism (t=6.896, P<0.001) and agreeableness (t=5.854, P<0.001) were higher in the females than in the males. The scores of agreeableness (t=4.834, P<0.001), openness (t=5.128, P<0.001) and extroverted personality (t=2.992, P=0.003) were higher in freshmen than in sophomores, with statistically significant differences. The score of happiness was higher in freshmen than in sophomores (t=2.624, P=0.009), higher in students with self-assessed good family economic status than in those with self-assessed poor family economic status (t=6.421, P≤0.001) as well as higher in students with self-assessed good academic performance than in those with self-assessed poor academic performance (t=5.512, P≤0.001), with statistically significant differences. The mediation effect analysis showed that the proportions of mediating effects in effects of positive coping in associations between neuroticism, rigor, amenity, openness, extroversion personality and well-being were 15.60%, 39.01%, 28.31%, 61.46% and 33.77%, respectively, while the proportions of mediating effects in effects of negative coping in associations between neuroticism, amenity, openness, extroversion personality and well-being were 34.50%, 4.78%, 8.63% and 5.28%, respectively.Conclusions Personality characteristics of the college students are important factors affecting subjective well-being. Coping styles play partial roles in mediating the relationship between personality characteristics and subjective well-being.
刘沛君, 张卫东, 荣峰, 徐作杰, 孟秀红. 某职业院校大学生应对方式在人格特征与幸福感关联中的中介作用[J]. 实用预防医学, 2019, 26(9): 1064-1068.
LIU Pei-jun, ZHANG Wei-dong, RONG Feng, XU Zuo-jie, MENG Xiu-hong. Mediating effects of coping styles on the relationship between personality traits and well-being among students in a vocational college. , 2019, 26(9): 1064-1068.
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