The mediating effect of psychological capital on the relationship between perceived social support and academic procrastination among higher vocational nursing students
ZENG Li
WANG Jialin
YUAN Zhongqing
LIU Guiling
LI Lan
Abstract：Objective To explore the current situation of perceived social support,psychological capital,and academic procrastination among higher vocational nursing students,and analyze the mediating effect of psychological capital between the two.Methods A total of 543 higher vocational nursing students were investigated by general information questionnaire,Perceived Social Support Scale,Positive Psycho-logical Capital Questionnaire,and Academic Procrastination Inventory for College Students.Results The scores of perceived social support,psycho-logical capital,and academic procrastination among higher vocational nursing students were(56.96±13.69),(108.05±19.46),and(55.33±12.23),respectively.Higher vocational nursing students'perceived social support was positively correlated with psychological capital(r=0.677,P＜0.01),and the perceived social support and psychological capital were negatively correlated with academic procrastination(r1=-0.435,r2=-0.493,P＜0.01),respectively.Psychological capital played a partial mediating effect between perceived social support and academic pro-crastination,accounting for 57.78％of the total effect.Conclusion Perceived social support,psychological capital,and academic procrastina-tion among higher vocational nursing students are all at a moderate level.Perceived social support can alleviate academic procrastination a-mong higher vocational nursing students,and psychological capital as a mediating variable can enhance the alleviating effect of perceived so-cial support on academic procrastination.The study suggests that nursing educators should start from multiple aspects to improve the time man-agement ability of higher vocational nursing students and alleviate academic procrastination problems.
Keywords：higher vocational nursing studentperceived social supportpsychological capitalacademic procrastinationnursing educa-tionmediating effect
Publication Date：2025-01-09
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 78-82 )