The Effect of College Students’ Resilience on Self-Consciousness: Based on the Mediation of Self-Esteem and Positive Affect

Abstract

Exploring the effect of college students’ resilience on self-consciousness can enrich the theoretical system of college students’ mental health research, providing theoretical guidance and countermeasures for college students’ psychological health education, further promoting college students to grow up and obtain sound personalities. This study takes self-esteem and positive affect as the mediators, and the related scales of resilience, self-consciousness, self-esteem, and positive affect as the research tool. 586 college students from three different types of universities in the Sichuan-Chongqing area are selected as the sample objects. The structural equation model is used for verification analysis and effect analysis, while the influence model of college students’ resilience on self-consciousness is established, and the following conclusions are drawn: (1) college students’ resilience has a direct positive effect on self-consciousness; (2) the resilience of college students has a positive effect on self-consciousness through the mediation of self-esteem and positive affect, and resilience has a strong direct positive effect on self-esteem; (3) enhancing college students’ self-consciousness with the improvement of resilience as a pointcut is an important part of college students’ psychological health education.