Does Low Self-Esteem Predict Anxiety Among Chinese College Students?

Everyone’s time is limited, and there is competition between different aspects of time use; this requires comprehensive consideration of the effects of different aspects of time use on cognitive achievement in adolescents. This study uses a dataset of 11,717 students from a nationally representative large-scale survey project conducted in 2013 to 2014 to clarify the relationship between time use (including working on homework, playing sports, surfing the Internet, watching TV, and sleeping) and cognitive achievement among Chinese adolescents, and explores the mediating role of depression symptoms in the relationship between time use and cognitive achievement. The results of the correlation analysis show that the average daily time spent on homework, playing sports, and sleeping is significantly positively correlated with cognitive achievement (p < 0.01), while time spent surfing the Internet and watching TV are significantly negatively correlated with cognitive achievement (p < 0.01). The results of the mediating effect model show that depression symptoms play a mediating role in the relationship between time use and cognitive achievement among Chinese adolescents. Specifically, time spent playing sports (indirect effect = 0.008, p < 0.001) and sleeping (indirect effect = 0.015, p < 0.001) have a positive effect on cognitive achievement when using depression symptoms as mediators; time spent on homework (indirect effect = −0.004, p < 0.001), surfing the Internet (indirect effect = −0.002, p = 0.046), and watching TV (indirect effect = −0.005, p < 0.001) have a negative effect on cognitive achievement when using depression symptoms as mediators. This study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between time use and cognitive achievement among Chinese adolescents.

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“…Thus, the negative effects of adolescent negative emotions should not be ignored (X. Liu et al 2022aLiu et al , 2023bThapar et al 2012).…”

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Time Use and Cognitive Achievement among Adolescents in China: Depression Symptoms as Mediators

Cao

Liu

2023

J. Intell.

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“…However, some research did fail to identify reciprocal effect between well‐being and self‐esteem as well. Specifically, despite the fact that self‐esteem is a significant predictor of later mental health problems, no significant prospective effects of anxiety levels on self‐esteem were identified (Gana et al, 2015; Liu et al, 2022). The current study utilized complex models that take three time points into account, which may offer a possible justification for why the observed results may not match some of the earlier findings.…”

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Role of self‐esteem in the association between mindset of socioeconomic status and well‐being: A cross‐lagged panel analysis

Zhao

Lin

et al. 2023

Applied Psych Health & Well

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People who believe that their socioeconomic status (SES) can be changed—with growth mindset or incremental implicit theory of SES—tend to have better psychological well‐being. Nevertheless, it remains unclear on why growth mindset of SES benefits well‐being. The present research aims to answer this question by investigating the longitudinal associations between mindset of SES and well‐being (i.e. depression and anxiety) and a potential mechanism (i.e. self‐esteem). We recruited 600 adults in Guangzhou, China, as participants in this study. Participants completed a list of questionnaires containing measures of mindset of SES, self‐esteem, depression, and anxiety at three time points over the course of 18 months. The cross‐lagged panel model showed that individuals holding a growth mindset of SES reported significantly lower depression and anxiety 1 year later, but the effect was not sustained later. More importantly, self‐esteem accounted for the associations of mindset of SES with both depression and anxiety, such that individuals with growth mindset of SES had higher self‐esteem, and in turn, demonstrated lower depression and anxiety over 18 months. These findings deepen the understanding of the salutary effects of implicit theories of SES on psychological well‐being. Implications for future research and mindset‐related interventions are discussed.

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“…The data in this study came from the data set of the Beijing College Student Panel Survey (BCSPS), which has been widely used and verified by many studies [ 19 , [44] , [45] , [46] , [47] , [48] , [49] ]. The survey used three-stage Probability Proportionate to Size (PPS) sampling, and the selection was as follows: In the first stage, “university” was determined as the sampling unit, and the schools were divided into 6 groups according to the administrative affiliation and ranking, and then 15 universities were selected from them.…”

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Trajectories of college students' general self-efficacy, the related predictors, and depression: A piecewise growth mixture modeling approach

Liu¹,

Ji²,

Zhang³

2023

Heliyon

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Does Low Self-Esteem Predict Anxiety Among Chinese College Students?

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Time Use and Cognitive Achievement among Adolescents in China: Depression Symptoms as Mediators

Time Use and Cognitive Achievement among Adolescents in China: Depression Symptoms as Mediators

Role of self‐esteem in the association between mindset of socioeconomic status and well‐being: A cross‐lagged panel analysis

Trajectories of college students' general self-efficacy, the related predictors, and depression: A piecewise growth mixture modeling approach

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