The Influence of College students'Risk Cognition Level on Their Depressive State
This paper explores the influence of college students'risk cognition level on their depres-sive state and the protective role of psychological capital.Risk perception scale,stress-anxiety-depres-sion scale and psychological capital scale were used to investigate 5 138 college students,and the re-sults showed that risk perception level positively predicted depression,the dimensions of hope,efficacy and optimism in psychological capital can negatively predict depression.The efficacy dimension of psy-chological capital plays a moderating role in the relationship between risk perception and depressive state,that is,the predictive power of risk perception to depressive state decreases with the increase of efficacy.College students have a higher incidence of depressive symptoms,and the level of risk cogni-tion affects the level of individual depressive state.Results:The efficacy dimension of psychological capital plays a moderating role in the relationship between risk perception and depressive state,and can effectively reduce the negative influence of risk perception on depressive symptoms.