金融危机的心理影响与应对

The Psychological Impact of Financial Crisis and Its Copings

金融危机的出现对公众的心理健康带来消极影响,总体上,人们的心理幸福感在金融危机的影响下明显降低。金融危机对人们心理行为产生的消极影响包括抑郁与焦虑症状明显,主观评价能力变低,自尊水平降低,同时自杀企图增加,酒精与毒品滥用增多,暴力行为增多。而且,金融危机不仅对个体的心理行为有影响,也会影响家庭成员的心理行为。金融危机对人们心理社会机能的影响主要通过经济困难与认同危机实现。不过,个人资源与社会资源可以调节金融危机带来的消极影响。采取提高个体应对效能、社区关注和支持、政府增加就业机会等整合家庭、学校与社会等各种资源的干预策略都会都减弱金融危机的消极影响。

Financial crisis made negative effect on the public mental health. Generally speaking, human＇s well-beings obviously decreased when they confronted financial crisis. The negative effect of the financial crisis on mind and behavior consisted of the apparent increase of anxiety and depression symptoms, the clear increase of suicide attempt and alcohol and drug abuse and violence, and the evident decrease of subjective competence or self-esteem level. The negative effect of financial crisis on individual also was extended to the family, such as the spouse and children. The economic hardship and identity crisis triggered the above negative impacts. The personal and social resources can moderate the negative effect of financial crisis. The future studies will focus on the role of culture context, the integrity of copings, family and community harmony in which the negative effect of financial crisis can be reduced.