The mediating effect of self-esteem between adverse childhood experiences and social avoidance and distress among undergraduate students
Li Ri-qing
YU Yu-lan
Abstract：Objectives To explore the relationship between adverse childhood experiences(ACEs)and social avoidance and distress among undergraduate students,especially the mediating effect of self-esteem among them.Methods We used the revised Adverse Childhood Experience questionnaire,Social Avoidance and Distress Scale and Self-esteem scale to test the relationship,and 250 undergraduate students were chosen by systematic sampling method from a university in Guangdong province.Results(1)Adverse childhood experiences(ACEs)were positively correlated with social avoidance and distress(r=0.34,P<0.01),and negatively correlated with self-esteem among undergraduate students(r=-0.33,P<0.01);Self-esteem was negatively correlated with social avoidance and distress among undergraduate students(r=-0.35,P<0.01).(2)Self-esteem played a partial mediating role between adverse childhood experiences and social avoidance and distress among undergraduate students,and the mediating effect of self-esteem accounted for 20.00%.Conclusion Self esteem plays a partial mediating role between adverse childhood experiences and social avoidance and distress among undergraduate students.Improving self-esteem can alleviate the harm of ACEs on students'social avoidance and distress.
Keywords：self-esteemadverse childhood experiencessocial avoidance and distressmediating effect
Publication Date：2024-08-28
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 437-440 )