Yingnan Guo, Zhi Guo, Zongdi Yin
Stronger academic motivation and resilience were associated with lower reported burnout, and the indirect association through resilience was statistically significant. The motivation-resilience association also varied across levels of perceived stress, although the observed direction differed from the original hypothesis. Given the cross-sectional design, adapted self-report measures, and very high intercorrelations among the focal variables, these findings should be regarded as preliminary evidence of conditional associations rather than as evidence of a distinct psychological process.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the relationship between perceived environmental support for value education (PESVE) and mental health among civil aviation flight university students, and to examine the mediating role of psychological resilience and the moderating effect of flight training duration.
METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,126 flight technology students from the Civil Aviation University of China using the stratified cluster sampling method. Participants completed the Self-developed Scale of Value Education Integration (SVEI), the Chinese version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the mediating effect of psychological resilience, and a multi-group analysis examined the moderating role of flight training duration.
RESULTS: The mean scores were as follows: PESVE (52.80 ± 10.65), resilience (73.46 ± 14.32), and DASS-21 total (37.50 ± 22.86). PESVE was positively correlated with resilience (r = 0.46, p < 0.01) and negatively correlated with DASS-21 total (r = -0.41, p < 0.01). Resilience was negatively correlated with DASS-21 total (r = -0.52, p < 0.01). SEM showed a good fit (χ2/df = 2.63, CFI = 0.95, RMSEA = 0.055). The indirect effect of resilience was -0.24 (95% CI: -0.31 to -0.18), accounting for 42.1% of the total effect. The multi-group analysis revealed that the path coefficient from PESVE to resilience was significantly higher for students with >100 flight hours (β = 0.58) than for those with <50 flight hours (β = 0.35).
CONCLUSION: Perceived environmental support for value education is associated with improved mental health among flight university students, partially through the enhancement of psychological resilience, and this association becomes stronger with increased professional training. A dual-core (value-psychology) collaborative mechanism in curriculum, activities, and management is recommended for holistic student development.