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

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Table 1 Difference Comparison Results of Each Variable

	Male (M ± SD)	Female (M ± SD)	t	Cohen’s d
Safety awareness	4.11 ± 0.764	3.99 ± 0.724	3.348**	0.161
	Low mental health (M ± SD)	High mental health (M ± SD)
Interpersonal relationship	3.06 ± 0.677	3.79 ± 0.822	17.040**	−0.969
Safety awareness	3.61 ± 0.751	4.15 ± 0.698	12.198**	−0.745
College planning	2.37 ± 0.566	2.64 ± 0.524	8.079**	−0.495

Note: **P < 0.01.

Table 2 Correlation Analysis Results of Interpersonal Relationship, Safety Awareness, College Planning and Mental Health

	M	SD	1	2	3	4
Interpersonal relationship	3.63	0.847	1
Safety awareness	3.64	0.743	0.350**	1
College planning	4.04	0.544	0.279**	0.216**	1
Mental health	2.59	0.784	0.473**	0.414**	0.249**	1

Note: **P < 0.01.

Table 3 Regression Analysis Among Variables

Model		Overall Fit Index			Significant
Outcome variable	Predictor variable	R	R^2	F	β	t
Safety awareness	Interpersonal relationship	0.360	0.130	122.999	0.308	15.274**
	Gender				−0.131	−3.766**
College planning	Interpersonal relationship	0.312	0.097	59.303	0.147	9.123**
	Safety awareness				0.105	5.693**
	Gender				0.062	2.396*
Mental health	Interpersonal relationship	0.549	0.302	177.974	0.328	15.724**
	Safety awareness				0.281	11.956**
	College planning				0.133	4.261**
	Gender				−0.043	−1.303

Note: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.

Table 4 Mediating Effects of Safety Awareness and College Planning on Interpersonal Relationship and Mental Health

	Effect	BootSE	BootLLCI	BootULCI	Relative Mediating Effect
Mediating effect	0.110	0.012	0.088	0.136	25.06%
Path 1	0.087	0.011	0.067	0.109	19.82%
Path 2	0.020	0.006	0.010	0.031	4.56%
Path 3	0.004	0.001	0.002	0.007	0.91%

Figure 1 Chain-mediated effect path.

Note: **P < 0.01.