Mediating Effects of Coping Style on Self-esteem and Anxiety Among Recruits
FANG An-qi
LI Hong-zheng
CHEN Hai-yan
REN Jin-wen
Abstract：Objective To explore the mediating effects of coping style on self-esteem and anxiety among recruits.Methods Self-esteem scale (SES),self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and trait coping style questionnaire (TCSQ) were used to measure 2100 recruits from a south China command by randomly cluster sampling method.Results The SES,SAS,positive coping (PC) and negative coping (NC) scores of 1947 valid questionnaires included were (31.15 ± 4.64),(40.70 ± 10.07),(34.57 ± 6.11) and (23.73 ± 7.42) scores,respectively.Anxiety was negatively correlated with self-esteem and PC (r =-0.467,-0.400,all P＜0.01),but it was positively correlated with NC (r =0.566,P＜0.01).Self-esteem was positively correlated with PC (r =0.437,P＜0.01),but it was negatively correlated with NC (r =-0.467,P＜0.01).Self-esteem and coping style had prediction functions to anxiety for explaining 40.90 ％ of total variance.Coping style played a partial mediating role in self-esteem and anxiety.The mediating effect value of PC and NC were-0.105 and-0.208,and the effect sizes were 22.55％ and 44.50％,respectively.Conclusion Self-esteem and coping style are important influencing factors for anxiety,meanwhile,coping style plays a partial mediating role in self-esteem and anxiety.
Keywords：RecruitsAnxietySelf-esteemCoping styleMediating effect
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 688-691 )