By examining the mediating role of rumination between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and anxiety, a basis is provided for improving the mental health level of college students.
A convenience sampling method was used to select undergraduate students from Guangxi Medical University as the study subjects. A self-designed general information questionnaire, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) , the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7), and the Ruminative Responses Scale-Chinese Version (RRS-CV) were used to survey 1 050 college students. The Kruskal-Wallis H test and partial correlation analysis were used to examine the relationships between ACEs, general demographic information, anxiety levels, and rumination. Structural equation modeling was applied to analyze the model of the relationships among ACEs, rumination, and anxiety, and the bootstrap method was used to test the mediation effect.
After controlling for gender and family annual income, all dimensions of ACEs were significantly positively correlated with anxiety and rumination (all P<0.001), and rumination fully mediated the relationships of emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and physical neglect with anxiety.
Rumination exerts a full mediating effect between ACEs and anxiety. Universities may reduce rumination by strengthening mental health education, thus attenuating the impact of ACEs on anxiety.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
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| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |