The International journal of social psychiatry
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Int J Soc Psychiatry · Feb 2018
Historical ArticleThe effect of social support, gratitude, resilience and satisfaction with life on depressive symptoms among police officers following Hurricane Katrina.
Police officers in the New Orleans geographic area faced a number of challenges following Hurricane Katrina. ⋯ Social support, gratitude and resilience are associated with higher satisfaction with life and fewer symptoms of depression. Targeting and building these factors may improve an officer's ability to address symptoms of depression.
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Int J Soc Psychiatry · Feb 2018
The impact of students with left-behind experiences on childhood: The relationship between negative life events and depression among college students in China.
The number of left-behind children in rural China has increased dramatically over the last decade. It is reported that about 21.88% of child population with an estimated number of 61 million are left-behind children whose parents leave them to work in cities. We conducted a cross-sectional study to explore the impacts of left-behind experience (LBE) on college students' depression and other influencing factors. ⋯ Self-esteem and psychological resilience fully mediates college students' negative life events and depression, which is regulated by their previous LBEs.