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 inJournal of college counseling Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 99 - 110
Main Authors McCarthy, Christopher J., Fouladi, Rachel T., Juncker, Brian D., Matheny, Kenneth B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 22.09.2006
American Counseling Association
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Anxiety
College Students
Coping
Correlation
Depression (Psychology)
Experience
Gender Differences
Personality Traits
Psychological aspects
Psychological Patterns
Regression (Statistics)
School Counseling
Self Efficacy
Stress (Psychology)
Stress Management
Stress Variables
Structural Equation Models
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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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ISSN:1099-0399
2161-1882
DOI:10.1002/j.2161-1882.2006.tb00097.x