Moderating Effects of Spiritual Health on Negative Life Events and Psychological Distress in Freshmen

[1] Well-being in an academic environment [2] Stages of change, self-efficacy and stress management perceptions in first year undergraduate students [3] Stress, positive psychology and the national student survey [4] Stress among higher education students: Towards a research agenda [5] Student stress is rising, especially among women [6] Association between spiritual health and depression in students [7] Assessing the spiritual health in nurses of critical care units: A cross-sectional study [8] Development of Islamic Spiritual Health Scale (ISHS) [9] The association between spiritual health and blood sugar control in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes [10] Measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression in adolescence: Reliability, validity, and gender differences [11] The relationships among self-care, dispositional mindfulness, and psychological distress in medical students [12] The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations [13] Negative life events and psychological distress among young adults [14] Life events and personal causation: Some relationships with satisfaction and distress [15] Negative life events, cognitive emotion regulation and emotional problems [16] Life events and psychological distress: A prospective study of young adolescents [17] Negative life events and depression in elderly persons: A meta-analysis [18] Evaluation of life events in major depression: Assessing negative emotional bias [19] Anxiety symptoms mediate the relationship between exposure to stressful negative life events and depressive symptoms: A conditional process modelling of the protective effects of resilience [20] The moderating role of spirituality in the association between stress and substance use among adolescents: Differences by gender Aims First year for the undergraduate students is not only a time for increased stress, but a time of increased risk for the development of physical, social, academic, and psychological health problems due to the toll this stress can take Spiritual health is considered as an important aspect of human health. The aim of the present study was to examine moderating effects of spiritual health on negative life events and psychological distress in freshmen.