Psychological Resources as Stress Buffers: Their Relationship to University Students' Anxiety and Depression
The association of protective resources, personality variables, life events, and gender with anxiety and depression was examined with university students. Building on regression analyses, a structural equation model was generated with good fit, indicating that with respect to both anxiety and depres...
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Published in | Journal of college counseling Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 99 - 110 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
22.09.2006
American Counseling Association John Wiley & Sons, Inc |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | The association of protective resources, personality variables, life events, and gender with anxiety and depression was examined with university students. Building on regression analyses, a structural equation model was generated with good fit, indicating that with respect to both anxiety and depression, negative life events and coping resources were mediated by a common distress factor. Personality variables were associated with anxiety, which in turn had a direct relationship to depression. |
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Bibliography: | ArticleID:JOCC97 istex:331C82EF095C5F5141F21F0DAEEB9F49384031D3 ark:/67375/WNG-NM7FGHQ3-9 |
ISSN: | 1099-0399 2161-1882 |
DOI: | 10.1002/j.2161-1882.2006.tb00097.x |