The relationship between college students' stress and mental health: a serial mediation model
摘要
This cross-sectional study tests whether academic stress predicts college students' well-being and depression through family resilience and self-esteem. A total of 918 college students in the study provided self-reported data on stress, family resilience, self-esteem, well-being, and depression. The results indicated that: (1) higher levels of perceived stress significantly predicted lower subjective well-being and greater depression; (2) both family resilience and self-esteem mediated the relationship between stress and both well-being and depression; (3) family resilience and self-esteem acted as sequential mediators linking stress to well-being and depression. These findings suggest that stress not only directly impacts students' mental health but also influences their well-being and depression indirectly through family resilience and self-esteem.