Mediating effect of college students'creative vigor between social suspi-cion and college students'sense of meaning in life and the moderating role of gender
Objective To explore the mediating role of college students'creative vigor between social suspicion and college students'sense of meaning in life and the moderating role of gender.Methods From September to October 2023,an online survey of 1 558 college students from three colleges and universities in southern Anhui Province was conducted using the Social Suspicion Scale,the College Students'Innovative Vitality Questionnaire,and the College Students'Sense of Meaning in Life Scale using the whole cluster sampling method.Correlation analysis,Hayes'(2022)PROCESS macro program,and Bootstrap methods were used to conduct mediation effects,moderating effects,and significance tests.Results Social suspicion is significantly and negatively related to college students'creative vigor and college students'sense of meaning in life(r=-0.107,-0.173,P＜0.01);college students'innovation vitality plays a partly mediating role between social suspicion and college students'sense of meaning in life,and the mediating effect accounts for 42.77％of the total effect;gender moderates the relationship between social suspicion and college students'sense of meaning in life and college students'innovative vigor.Specifically,social suspicion has a stronger effect on female college students'sense of meaning of life(βsimple=-0.111,t=4.212,P＜0.01)than male college students(βsimple=-0.083,t=3.045,P＜0.01).Conclusion Social suspicion not only negatively affects college students'sense of meaning of life directly,but also indirectly affects college students'sense of meaning of life through college students'innovative vigor,and gender moderates the direct effect of social suspicion on college students'sense of meaning of life and the first half of the mediating role of college students'innovative vigor in the relationship between the two.Reducing social suspicion may be beneficial to increasing college students'creative vigor,indirectly enhancing their sense of meaning and improving their mental health.
Social suspicionSense of meaning in lifeCollege studentsCreative energies of college students
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