Author(s)

Bo Feng ¹, Jiale Zhu ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Digital Economy and Management, Guangxi Manufacturing Engineering Vocational and Technical College, 29 Baoyuan Road, Nanning, 530105, China
² Quality Management Center, Guangxi Safety Engineering Vocational and Technical College, 592 Hongling Avenue, Nanning, 530105, China

Corresponding Author

Bo Feng

ABSTRACT

This study is based on the perspective of positive psychology, exploring the impact of leverage mechanism on the positive psychology of college students, and focusing on the mediating role of social support and self-efficacy. The results showed that the leverage mechanism was significantly positively correlated with positive psychology (r=0.323, P<0.01), self-efficacy (r=0.336, P<0.01), and social support (r=0.192, P<0.01), as measured by the Achievement Motivation Scale, Warwick Edinburgh Mental Health Scale, Social Support Scale, and General Self Efficacy Scale on 550 college students; Social support and self-efficacy not only play independent mediating roles in the leverage mechanism affecting positive psychology, with mediation effect values of 0.07 and 0.12, respectively, accounting for 17.85% and 30.61% of the total effect, but also jointly form a chain mediation pathway, with a mediation effect value of 0.04, accounting for 10.2% of the total effect. The conclusion indicates that the leverage mechanism not only directly promotes positive psychology among college students, but also indirectly promotes it through multiple mediating pathways of social support and self-efficacy.

KEYWORDS

Leverage Mechanism, Positive Psychology, Social Support, Self-Efficacy, College Students

CITE THIS PAPER

Bo Feng, Jiale Zhu, The Impact of Leveraging Mechanisms on Constructing Positive Psychology among College Students: The Chain Mediation Effect of Social Support and Self-Efficacy. Applied & Educational Psychology (2025) Vol. 6: 136-144. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2025.060318.

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