@article{ref1,
title="How is fatalistic determinism linked to depression? The mediating role of self-control and resilience",
journal="Personality and individual differences",
year="2021",
author="Fu, Jiawei and Zhao, Yajun and Feng, Xingwang and Wang, Yueru and Yu, Zongren and Hua, Liyun and Wang, Song and Li, Jingguang",
volume="180",
number="",
pages="e110992-e110992",
abstract="Previous studies have indicated that individuals who believe fatalistic determinism are more depressed than other individuals. In this study, by testing the mediating roles of self-control and resilience, we aimed to investigate how fatalistic determinism is linked to depression. One sample of high school students (Study 1, N = 714) and another independent sample of college students (Study 2, N = 1569) in China completed questionnaires about fatalistic determinism, depression, self-control, and resilience. Mediation analyses were conducted with fatalistic determinism as a predictor variable, self-control and resilience as mediators, and depression as an outcome variable. In both studies, we observed a replicable pattern of results. Fatalistic determinism was positively correlated with depression. Self-control and resilience played multiple mediating roles in the association between fatalistic determinism and depression through three mediating pathways: via self-control alone, via resilience alone, and via the effect of self-control on resilience. Together, the total mediation effect accounted for approximately half of the total effect (46.2% in Study 1 and 48.5% in Study 2). In conclusion, fatalistic determinism may increase the risk of developing depression either by simultaneously decreasing self-control and resilience (parallel mediation) or by decreasing resilience via reduced self-control (serial mediation).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-8869",
doi="10.1016/j.paid.2021.110992",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110992"
}