Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between social support, rumination, emotion regulation self- eicacy (ERSE) and depression in college students, focusing on the mediating effect between social support and depression in college students.
Methods: A cross-sectional study of 1433 college students in Jiangxi, China was conducted between October and November 2022. A series of mediation analyses were performed using AMOS24.0 and the PROCESS macro to examine the mediation effects.
Results: The study found that depression was signiicantly positively correlated with rumination, while ERSE was signiicantly negatively correlated with social support and ERSE. Social support has a direct negative predictive effect on depression in college students. Rumination and ERSE play independent mediating and chain mediating roles in the mechanism of social support affecting college students' depression, with indirect effect values of 0.11, 0.02 and 0.01, respectively.
conclusions: To alleviate and prevent depression in college students, emphasis should be placed on rumination and ERSE in addition to the in1uence of social support.