COVID-19 anxiety predicts loneliness among university students: the mediating roles of mattering, fear of not mattering, and anti-mattering.

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Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI:10.1080/15332640.2025.2494228

Fayez Mahamid, Priscilla Chou, Samaneh Sadeghi Hafshejani, Maryam Mokhtari Dinani, Nikolay Bokhan, Dana Bdier, Ivan V Voevodin, Gordon Flett, Audrene Kerr-Brown, Maxim Zangeneh

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Abstract

The current study evaluated the association between COVID-19 anxiety and loneliness among university students, as well as to investigate whether mattering, anti-mattering, and fear of not mediate this association. The study involved 450 university students from Canada, Russia, and Iran, consisting of 390 women and 60 men. Results of the correlational analysis, revealed that COVID-19 anxiety was positively correlated with loneliness (r = .48, p < .01), anti-mattering (r = .44, p < .01), and fear of not mattering (r = .46, p < .01), and negatively correlated with mattering (r = -0.20, p < .01). Conversely, mattering was negatively correlated with anti-mattering (r = -0.44, p < .01), and fear of not mattering (r = -0.23, p < .01). Regarding mediation analysis, the findings revealed that mattering, anti-mattering, and fear of not mattering mediated the association between COVID-19 anxiety and loneliness among university students. The results of the current study highlight the importance of enhancing individuals' sense of mattering as a protective factor that can reduce the impact of psychological stress and anxiety associated with pandemic and the likelihood of engaging in maladaptive behaviors. This can prevent individuals from engaging in maladaptive behaviors, such as loneliness, addiction, and the use of negative coping strategies to deal with stressful events.

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COVID-19焦虑预测大学生孤独感：重要、不重要恐惧和反重要的中介作用。

本研究评估了大学生COVID-19焦虑与孤独感之间的关系，并调查了重要、反重要和对不重要的恐惧是否调解了这种联系。这项研究涉及来自加拿大、俄罗斯和伊朗的450名大学生，其中包括390名女性和60名男性。相关分析结果显示，新冠肺炎焦虑与孤独感（r = 0.48, p < 0.01）、反关心（r = 0.44, p < 0.01）、害怕不关心（r = 0.46, p < 0.01）呈正相关，与关心（r = -0.20, p < 0.01）呈负相关。相反，无所谓与反无所谓呈负相关（r = -0.44, p < 0.01），对无所谓的恐惧呈负相关（r = -0.23, p < 0.01）。在中介分析方面，研究结果显示，重要、反重要和对不重要的恐惧在大学生新冠肺炎焦虑与孤独之间的关联中起中介作用。目前的研究结果强调了增强个人的重要感作为一种保护因素的重要性，可以减少与大流行相关的心理压力和焦虑的影响，以及从事适应不良行为的可能性。这可以防止个人参与适应不良行为，如孤独，成瘾，以及使用消极的应对策略来处理压力事件。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse presents rigorous new studies and research on ethnicity and cultural variation in alcohol, tobacco, licit and illicit forms of substance use and abuse. The research is drawn from many disciplines and interdisciplinary areas in the social and behavioral sciences, public health, and helping professions. The Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse is an international forum for identification of emergent and culturally diverse substance use and abuse trends, and the implementation of culturally competent strategies in harm reduction, individual, group, and family treatment of substance abuse. The Journal systematically investigates the beliefs, attitudes, and values of substance abusers, searching for the answers to the origins of drug use and abuse for different ethnic groups. The Journal publishes research papers, review papers, policy commentaries, and conference proceedings. The Journal welcomes submissions from across the globe, and strives to ensure efficient review and publication outcomes.