A study on the impact of mental health problems on the academic buoyancy of medical students and the mechanisms

Front Public Health. 2024 Jan 16:11:1229343. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1229343. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the effects of different family environmental backgrounds and mental health problems on academic buoyancy and to explore the potential mechanisms of their effects, using a sample of 2085 medical students in Jiangsu province.

Methods: Using the multiple linear regression to analyze the impact of mental health problems on academic buoyancy in different family environment contexts.

Results: (1) Higher family income and parental literacy implied higher levels of academic buoyancy in children; (2) mental health problems and academic buoyancy were negatively related, and generalized anxiety and uncertainty stress negatively predicted academic buoyancy levels; (3) uncertainty stress may have an indirect effect on academic buoyancy levels through a partially mediating effect of generalized anxiety.

Keywords: academic buoyancy; anxiety; influencing factors; mental health problems; psychological.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anxiety / psychology
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Income
  • Mental Health
  • Parents
  • Students, Medical* / psychology

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was funded by Xuzhou Science and Technology Plan Project (KC20200).