Relationship between depressive symptoms, negative life events, and resilience in primary and secondary school teachers

WANG Pei; ZHU Fan; JIA Bibo; ZHU Guiyin; ZHAO Tianjie; QI Tiantian; HU Yifei; MA Yinghua

doi:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024092

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WANG Pei, ZHU Fan, JIA Bibo, ZHU Guiyin, ZHAO Tianjie, QI Tiantian, HU Yifei, MA Yinghua. Relationship between depressive symptoms, negative life events, and resilience in primary and secondary school teachers[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2024, 45(3): 411-413. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024092

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WANG Pei, ZHU Fan, JIA Bibo, ZHU Guiyin, ZHAO Tianjie, QI Tiantian, HU Yifei, MA Yinghua. Relationship between depressive symptoms, negative life events, and resilience in primary and secondary school teachers[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2024, 45(3): 411-413. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024092

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WANG Pei, ZHU Fan, JIA Bibo, ZHU Guiyin, ZHAO Tianjie, QI Tiantian, HU Yifei, MA Yinghua. Relationship between depressive symptoms, negative life events, and resilience in primary and secondary school teachers[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2024, 45(3): 411-413. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024092

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Relationship between depressive symptoms, negative life events, and resilience in primary and secondary school teachers

doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024092

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Institute of Child and Adolescent Health/School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing (100191), China

Received Date: 2023-10-07
Rev Recd Date: 2024-01-12

Available Online: 2024-03-29

Publish Date: 2024-03-25

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Objective To explore the relationship between depressive symptoms, negative life events and resilience among primary and secondary school teachers, so as to provide a reference for mental health promotion in school teachers. Methods During November to December 2022, a questionnaire survey was conducted using convenient cluster sampling method to select 11 332 in-service teachers from 38 schools in 8 provinces (cities) including Beijing, Guangdong, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 items, a self-developed 21-item Adverse Life Events questionnaire, and a 10-item Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale were used to assess depressive symptoms, experiences of negative life events, and resilience levels of the teachers, respectively. The relationship between depressive symptoms, negative life events and psychological resilience were analyzed by multiple linear regression and stratified regression. Results The detection rate of depressive symptoms among primary and secondary school teachers was 14.0%. Negative life events of primary and secondary school teachers were positively correlated with depressive symptoms (r=0.35), while psychological resilience was negatively correlated with depressive symptoms (r=-0.45) (P<0.05). After adjusting for possible covariates including gender and marital status, negative life events were positively correlated with depressive symptoms (β=0.22, P<0.01). Resilience played a moderating role in the association of negative life events with depressive symptoms among primary and secondary school teachers (B=-0.15, P<0.01). Conclusions Negative life events experiences are associated with higher level of depressive symptoms among school teachers. However, resilience might mitigate the negative effects of negative life events on depressive symptoms, playing a protective role in teachers' mental health.
- Depression,
- Life change events,
- Mental health,
- Regression analysis

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