How social support predicts anxiety among university students during COVID-19 control phase: Mediating roles of self-esteem and resilience

IF 1.8 4区社会学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI:10.1111/asap.12314

Yacong Shu, Wenzheng Lin, Jia Yang, Pengfei Huang, Biqin Li, Xing Zhang

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Abstract

Public health emergency, such as COVID-19 pandemic, generally has severe impacts on mental health in public. One of the often-neglected negative consequences is that the control and prevention measures of COVID-19 in the post-epidemic can pose psychological threats to public mental health. This study aimed to seek the factors and mechanisms to alleviate this mental health threat based on a sample of university students in China. Accordingly, this study proposed an environmental-individual interaction model examining the multiple mediating effects of self-esteem and resilience in the association between social support and anxiety among university students during COVID-19 control phase. A questionnaire containing multiple scales were administered on the sample of 2734 Chinese university students. Results indicated that social support negatively predicted anxiety through the serial mediating effects of self-esteem and resilience sequentially. Our results highlight the impact of social support and the internal factors on relieving anxiety among university students in COVID-19 control phase. Findings suggest that effective psychological intervention tools should be designed and offered to college students to reduce anxiety distress and improve mental health in the post-epidemic era or the similar situations in the future.

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社会支持对新冠肺炎控制期大学生焦虑的预测:自尊和心理韧性的中介作用

突发公共卫生事件，如COVID-19大流行，通常会对公众心理健康产生严重影响。一个经常被忽视的负面后果是，疫情后防控措施可能对公众心理健康构成心理威胁。本研究旨在以中国大学生为样本，寻求缓解这种心理健康威胁的因素和机制。基于此，本研究提出了一个环境-个体互动模型，考察自尊和心理弹性在新冠肺炎控制期大学生社会支持与焦虑之间的多重中介作用。采用多量表问卷对2734名中国大学生进行调查。结果表明，社会支持通过自尊和心理弹性的连续中介作用对焦虑产生负向预测。我们的研究结果突出了社会支持和内部因素对新冠肺炎控制阶段大学生焦虑缓解的影响。研究结果提示，应设计并提供有效的心理干预工具，以减轻后疫情时代或未来类似情况下大学生的焦虑困扰，改善心理健康状况。

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期刊介绍： Recent articles in ASAP have examined social psychological methods in the study of economic and social justice including ageism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, status quo bias and other forms of discrimination, social problems such as climate change, extremism, homelessness, inter-group conflict, natural disasters, poverty, and terrorism, and social ideals such as democracy, empowerment, equality, health, and trust.