The Relationship Between College Students’ Interpersonal Relationship and Mental Health: Multiple Mediating Effect of Safety Awareness and College Planning

Abstract

Purpose

The research intends to find the internal influence mechanism of interpersonal relationship on college students’ mental health. College students have many mental health problems, which can easily lead to extreme events. It is of great research value to explore the relationship among interpersonal relationship, safety awareness, college planning, and mental health.

Participants and Methods

GHQ, WHOQOL-BREF, SWBS-CC, LSIB, and TSCS scales were used, revised questionnaire for cluster sampling of college students, 1661 valid samples. SPSS 26.0 and PROCESS V4.1 were used for analysis, and nonparametric Bootstrap method was used to test the significance level of the mediating effect.

Results

There are significant differences in interpersonal relationship, safety awareness, and college planning between high mental health group and low mental health group. There are differences in safety awareness between genders. There is a positive correlation among interpersonal relationship, safety awareness, college planning, and mental health. Interpersonal relationship has a positive predictive effect on mental health. There are three mediating pathways of interpersonal relationship on mental health: independent mediating effect pathway of safety awareness, independent mediating effect pathway of college planning, and chain mediating effect pathway through safety awareness and college planning.

Conclusion

This study reveals the Influence mechanism of interpersonal relationships on college students’ mental health. The relationship between interpersonal relationship and mental health is affected by the multiple mediating effects of safety awareness and college planning. It provides a new perspective for preventing and intervening mental health problems. College students’ personality has plasticity, which can be interfered by mediating mechanism. The present findings could help college students actively participate in interpersonal communication, improve safety awareness, and make a good college planning, so as to enhance the mental health level of college students.

Keywords:

• interpersonal relationship
• safety awareness
• college planning
• mental health
• chain mediating effect

Ethical Statement and Informed Consent

This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The Ethics Committee of Suzhou University approved the study. Participants were informed that their responses to the task would be anonymous and confidential.

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the editors and reviewers.

Disclosure

The author reports no conflicts of interest in this work.

Additional information

Funding

This study was supported by Anhui University Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project (SK2019A0532); Anhui Universities Quality Engineering Project (2021shsjkc024); The Ministry of Education’s Industry-University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project (202101291015); Anhui Province Social Science Innovation and Development Research Project (2021CX119); Anhui Universities Quality Engineering Project (2018mooc586); Key scientific research projects of Suzhou University(2021yzd14).