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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025

Mental health literacy as a moderator: association between psychological vulnerability and adolescent anxiety.

Qianying Hu, Yingyan Zhong, Jianhua Chen, Rumeng Chen, Enzhao Cong, Yifeng Xu

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Qianying Hu *Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Yingyan Zhong *Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Jianhua ChenShanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Rumeng ChenShanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Enzhao CongShanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Yifeng XuShanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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Abstract

Background: Adolescent anxiety's underlying mechanisms remain unclear, which undermines adolescents' social functioning. This study examined the moderating role of mental health literacy in the relationship between adolescent anxiety and psychological vulnerability. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1,591 middle and high school students through online questionnaires in January 2023 in Guizhou Province, China. The Psychological Vulnerability Scale, Mental Health Literacy Scale, and Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders were used to measure psychological vulnerability, mental health literacy, anxiety, and its five dimensions, including panic/somatic, generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, social phobia, and school phobia in adolescents, respectively. Results: Psychological vulnerability was significantly correlated with adolescent anxiety and its dimensions ( Conclusion: Those findings suggest educators should develop curriculum resources to strengthen the cultivation of mental health literacy among adolescents to promote adolescent mental health.

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adolescentanxietymental health literacymoderatorpsychological vulnerability

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PMID40528857
PMCPMC12170652

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