Abstract
To explore the positive and negative effects of labor values on mental health from the aspects of life satisfaction and psychological distress, and further verify the mediating role of social support. A total of 2,691 primary and secondary school students were surveyed by Labor Values Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Social Support, General Health Questionnaire and Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the results of which showed that as: (1) labor values can positively predict life satisfaction, while they are negatively correlated with psychological distress; (2) social support can play a mediating role between labor values and life satisfaction; and (3) social support can also play a mediating role in the relationship between labor values and psychological distress. This study revealed that the specific path and mechanism of labor values on mental health. This provided a reference for families and schools to further implement the education of labor values on primary and secondary school students and helped to promote the social construction of an education system that aimed at cultivating individual all-round development.
Highlights
Values are the concept system that people use to distinguish good from bad, beauty from ugliness, profit from loss, right from wrong, or to judge whether something is in line with their own wishes, etc. (Zhang, 2002; Huang and Zheng, 2015)
Four latent variables and 14 observed variables were contained in the measurement model
This study explored the positive and negative effects of labor values on mental health from the aspects of life satisfaction and psychological distress, and further verified the mediating role of social support
Summary
Values are the concept system that people use to distinguish good from bad, beauty from ugliness, profit from loss, right from wrong, or to judge whether something is in line with their own wishes, etc. (Zhang, 2002; Huang and Zheng, 2015). Labor values are the abstraction of individuals subjective evaluations on labor (Hao, 2014; Tan, 2019a), which are one of the most fundamental values derived from labor practice. Labor values are not just people’s general and fundamental views on the state and extent to which labor satisfies people’s needs, which are the internal needs of individuals, and it can present the labor characteristics or attributes that they pursue in their activities (Guo and Liu, 2016). In the Chinese institutional culture guided by Marxism, labor values have special meanings. According to the research of Tan (2019b), in Chinese culture, labor values refer to the individual’s positive labor attitude, that is, refusing to be lazy, hurt others, be self-interest, and own other negative values. The Chinese official government has discussed what labor values should be established on many occasions
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