The number of social support providers enhances the mediating role of resilience between life satisfaction and depression tendency

Background: The contribution of psychosocial characteristics, including life satisfaction, resilience, and social support, to depression tendency in adults has been proposed, because the age of onset of depressive disorders, i.e., adolescence to early adulthood, is associated with various impairments in psychosocial functioning. In this study, a psychosocial model is introduced to verify a psychosocial network for the prevention of depression tendency. Methods: For this study, 370 participants were recruited. They completed several questionnaires to assess their depression tendency: Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SwLS), Peace of Mind (PoM) scale, Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). Results: A negative association was found between depression tendency and all other variables, including PoM and CD-RISC scores, life satisfaction, and social support. Such factors can be considered as protective against increased depression tendency. In addition, an indirect effect was found for PoM and resilience on the negative association between SwLS and depression tendency. Moreover, social support was found to mediate the correlation between PoM and resilience, implying the mediating role of social support between an individual’s inner state of mind and resilience. Conclusions: A psychosocial model for depression prevention involves not only the individual’s inner state of mind and subjective view of events and their life, but also outside factors, including social support.