Previous research suggested the negative implications of fatalism for mental health. The present study addressed more nuanced associations between fatalism and mental health by taking the multidimensionality of fatalism and socioeconomic status (SES) into consideration. Students in an introductory undergraduate course (208 included; mean age: 19.3 [SD = 3.9]) completed an online questionnaire related to demographic characteristics, fatalism, and mental health. Their data was analyzed using sets of regression models to examine whether the five dimensions of fatalism, such as helplessness and (low) internality, mediated the associations of SES with depressive symptoms and perceived stress and whether SES moderated the associations between each fatalism dimension and these mental health outcomes. The mediation was found for helplessness, but not for the other fatalism dimensions, in which lower SES predicted higher helplessness, which in turn predicted greater depressive symptoms and perceived stress. In addition, the moderation of SES was found only for the association between internality and depressive symptoms: internality predicted greater depressive symptoms for those with lower SES. This indicated negative implications of internality contrary to previous findings. The present study also highlighted the importance of specifically addressing helplessness, rather than fatalism in general, as a potential risk factor for mental health.

先前的研究表明宿命论对心理健康有负面影响。本研究通过考虑宿命论和社会经济地位（SES）的多维性，探讨了宿命论和心理健康之间更微妙的关联。本科入门课程的学生（包括 208 名；平均年龄：19.3 [SD = 3.9]）完成了一份与人口特征、宿命论和心理健康相关的在线调查问卷。他们使用回归模型对数据进行分析，以检验宿命论的五个维度，例如无助和（低）内在性，是否介导了 SES 与抑郁症状和感知压力的关联，以及 SES 是否调节了每个宿命论维度与这些维度之间的关联。心理健康结果。研究发现，这种中介作用针对的是无助感，但不适用于其他宿命论维度，其中较低的社会经济地位预示着更高的无助感，而无助感反过来又预示着更大的抑郁症状和感知压力。此外，SES 的调节只被发现与内在性和抑郁症状之间的关联有关：内在性预示着 SES 较低的人会出现更大的抑郁症状。这表明内部性的负面影响与之前的发现相反。本研究还强调了专门解决无助感而不是一般的宿命论作为心理健康潜在风险因素的重要性。