儿童心理虐待和忽视与高职新生的心理健康：自尊、情绪稳定性的中介作用

Objective: To explore the relationship of vocational college freshmen mental health with neuroticism, self-esteem, childhood psychological abuse and neglect, and validate that by structure equation modeling. Methods: A convenient sample of 740 freshmen from a certain vocational college of Hunan Province were surveyed with the Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-neuroticism (EPQ-N), Child Psychological Abuse and Neglect Scale (CPANS), and Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90). Results Childhood psychological abuse and neglect had significant direct effect on vocational college students' mental health, neuroticism, and self-esteem (β=0.18, -0.36, -0.39; Ps＜0.001). Neuroticism and self-esteem had significant direct effect on mental health (β=-0.66, -0.18; Ps＜0.001). Results of the multivariate delta method indicated that both neuroticism and self-esteem served as a partial mediator of the relation between childhood psychological abuse and neglect and vocational college students' mental health (z=25.81, 9.84; Ps＜0.01). Conclusion: The effects of vocational college students' neuroticism, self-esteem and childhood psychological abuse and neglect on mental health have been supported in this study. The mediating roles of self-esteem and neuroticism suggest salient leverage points for change through self-esteem enhancement and emotion management in vocational college students.