A Study On The Effect Of College Students’ Interpersonal Contact Efficacy To Depression Mood

Depression is one of the dangerous factors to threat human beings’ physical and mental health.A large number of studies have figured out that college students are the group with a high incidence of depression,that in our nation more than 30% college students are detected with the depression mood and it’s still rising year by year.Thus,it’s much important to figure out the features and influence factors of depression mood,and to perform the precaution of college students’ depression mood.The interpersonal theories of depression point out that interpersonal dilemma would lead to the generating and maintaining of depression;while college students are just in their critical period to obtain the intimacy and avoid the loneliness,interpersonal problems cause their psychological problems.Interpersonal contact efficacy is the way that individuals to evaluate their own social ability,giving impacts directly to individuals’ performance of social contact and satisfaction of intimate need.While,the relationships between interpersonal contact efficacy and depression mood,and the mediating variables that might be affected by these two variables have not been discussed yet.Based on the former theories and researches,this paper has made a survey of 1066 students from 5 colleges in a city,with the Depression Scale（from Center for Epidemiologic Studies）,UCLA Loneliness Scale,The College Students’ Interpersonal Contact Efficacy Scale and DDI（Distress Disclosure Index）through the related research,to figure out the impact of college students’ interpersonal contact efficacy to the depression mood;the paper has also discussed respectively that whether self-disclosure and loneliness can play a chain mediating effect between interpersonal contact efficacy and depression mood,and whether the self-disclosure and loneliness can give a chain mediating effect;besides,the mechanism would be discussed that how the factors of interpersonal contact efficacy give impacts on the depression mood through the cases of individual talking,as well as the effect of self-disclosure and loneliness to those two things.Conclusions of related researches:（1）The four variables,college students’ interpersonal contact efficacy,self-disclosure,loneliness and depression mood,are obviously correlated with each other.（2）College students’ interpersonal contact efficacy has negative forecast to depression mood.（3）College students’ interpersonal contact efficacy can reduce the depression mood by taking more individual self-disclosure.（4）College students’ interpersonal contact efficacy can reduce the depression mood by reducing the individual loneliness.（5）Self-disclosure and loneliness play a chain mediating role in the impact of interpersonal contact efficacy on the depression moodConclusions of researches of individual talking:（1）The affinity efficacy,communication efficacy,sense of self-value,self-impression efficacy and mood control of college students’ interpersonal contact efficacy can give impacts on their self-identification,relation establishment and relation maintaining in different degrees.It can determine how much supporting and accompanying they can get,and in turn the generating and maintaining of depression mood.（2）Self-disclosure is a kind of social interaction,which can not only make influence on college students’ relationships with others,but also regulate their emotions;college students can expose their own pains to others,so as to lessen their depression.（3）College students’ depression mood,caused by the low interpersonal contact efficacy,usually is not determined by the extent of interpersonal contact,but the evaluation of relationship’s quality.The depression mood would be generated by the loneliness when college students are less satisfied with their relationships.