From Stress to Psychopathology : Relationship with Self-Reassurance and Self-Criticism in Czech University Students

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11469-021-00516-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11469-021-00516-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00516-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11469-021-00516-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Stress to Psychopathology : Relationship with Self-Reassurance and Self-Criticism in Czech University Students

Original language description

Psychological stress has become a major concern, potentially leading to diverse health problems including psychopathology such as depression and anxiety. Transactional Model of Stress and Coping is an established model, conceptualizing stressful experiences via person-environment relationship. This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the pathway from stress to depression/anxiety, with a focus on self-criticism (inadequate-self and hated-self) and self-reassurance (reassured-self) in Czech students who suffered from high prevalence of mental health problems. Convenience sample of 119 undergraduates completed the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 and the Forms of the Self-Criticizing/Attacking &amp; Self-Reassuring Scale. Correlation and path analyses were conducted. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guidelines were used to aid an accurate and complete report of the study. Depression, anxiety, and stress were positively associated with inadequate-self and hated-self while negatively associated with reassured-self. Both inadequate-self and hated-self partially mediated the stress-depression and stress-anxiety relationships, whereas reassured-self only partially mediated the stress-depression relationship. Inadequate-self had greater impact on the stress-depression/anxiety pathways than hated-self and reassured-self. Findings indicate that clinical treatment may benefit from targeting the feelings of inadequacy to prevent stress progressing to psychopathology. This is particularly relevant as stress levels are rising globally. Our findings offer developments to the Transactional Model, and help practitioners and educators identify solutions to protect mental health of Czech university students.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

ISSN

1557-1874

e-ISSN

1557-1882

Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

2321-2332

UT code for WoS article

000627194200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102449335