JOURNAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (HEALTH SCIENCES) ›› 2017, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (9): 105-109.doi: 10.6040/j.issn.1671-7554.0.2017.228

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Mediating role of perceived stress on the relationship between mindfulness level and psychological distress among infertile women

KANG Xiaofei, FANG Yueyan, ZHAO Di, FENG Xiujuan, LI Ping   

  1. Department of Health Psychology, School of Nursing, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
  • Received:2017-03-20 Online:2017-09-10 Published:2017-09-10

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Abstract: Objective To explore the mediating effect of perceived stress on the relationship between mindfulness level and psychological distress in infertile women. Methods The 10-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale(K10), Mindful Attention Awareness Scale(MAAS), and 10-item Perceived Stress Scale(PSS-10)were adopted to survey infertile women. Structure Equation Modeling(SEM)and bootstrapping procedure were used to verify the mediating effect. Results The prevalence of psychological distress among infertile women was 79.6%. Spearman correlation analysis showed that there existed a moderate negative correlation between mindfulness level and perceived stress(rs=-0.529, P<0.001), and psychological distress(rs=-0.600, P<0.001); there was a moderate positive correlation between perceived stress and psychological distress(rs=0.691, P<0.001). SEM indicated that mindfulness level had significant direct effects on perceived stress(β=-0.67, P<0.001)and psychological distress(β=-0.31, P=0.007); perceived stress had a significant direct effect on psychological distress (β=0.64, P<0.001). Furthermore, perceived stress mediated the relationship between mindfulness level and psychological distress. The 95% confidence interval(95%CI)from Bootstrap output was(-0.628, -0.299, P<0.001)and the mediating effect accounted for 58.1% of the total effect. Conclusion Psychological distress was common among infertile women. The mediating role of perceived stress may provide potential mechanism for exploring the relationship between mindfulness level and psychological distress.

Key words: Structure equation modeling, Infertile women, Mindfulness, Perceived stress, Psychological distress

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