Stress and wellbeing in urban college students in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic: Can grit and gratitude help?
Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance
G. Bono, Kresimir Reil, Jadwiga Hescox
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Abstract
College is filled with opportunity, challenge and growth – as students expand their relationships and social capital, make formative life decisions, and overcome stress to achieve life goals The current short-term longitudinal study started before campus closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ended at the completion of the semester at an urban university It investigates the stress and subjective wellbeing of freshmen, impacts of the pandemic on their psychological, academic and financial wellbeing and their resilience to the pandemic during this period, and the role of socioeconomic status It also examines whether grit and gratitude helped in these areas First, we compared students (N = 86 freshmen) in terms of their parents’ education level;high vs low groups were created (i e , completed high school or less vs started or completed college up to graduate school) The low group reported significantly more perceived stress and subjective wellbeing than the high group prior to the pandemic Next, examination of the two groups in terms of pandemic impacts and pandemic resilience revealed that the low group reported significantly more financial and academic impacts than the high group, but not more resilience or life event stress Finally, we examined grit and gratitude prior to the pandemic and found that grit predicted significantly greater pandemic resilience and marginally lower psychological impact and that gratitude predicted significantly less impact to academic functioning at the end of the semester However, the low parent education group also increased in grateful emotion, whereas the high parent group decreased, suggesting that gratitude helped the low group more during the pandemic Overall results suggest that grit and gratitude can be promoted to protect college students’ subjective wellbeing and better cope with adversity of the pandemic The study closes with suggestions for intervention © 2020, International Journal of Wellbeing Charitable Trust All rights reserved
新冠肺炎大流行期间美国城市大学生的压力和幸福感:勇气和感恩能有所帮助吗?
大学充满了机会、挑战和成长——随着学生扩大他们的人际关系和社会资本,做出形成性的人生决定,克服压力以实现人生目标。目前的短期纵向研究从一所城市大学因COVID-19大流行而关闭校园之前开始,到学期结束时结束。它调查了大一新生的压力和主观幸福感、大流行对他们心理、在此期间,他们的学业和财务状况以及他们对流行病的适应能力,以及社会经济地位的作用。它还研究了勇气和感恩是否在这些方面有所帮助。首先,我们比较了学生(N = 86名新生)父母的教育水平;在大流行之前,低组比高组报告了更多的感知压力和主观幸福感。接下来,根据大流行影响和大流行弹性对两组的检查显示,低组比高组报告了更多的财务和学术影响,但没有更多的弹性或生活事件压力。我们在大流行之前检查了毅力和感恩,发现毅力预示着更大的大流行弹性和略低的心理影响,感恩预示着学期结束时学业功能的影响显着减少。然而,低父母教育组的感恩情绪也有所增加,而高父母教育组的感恩情绪有所减少。总体结果表明,可以促进勇气和感恩,以保护大学生的主观幸福感,更好地应对疫情带来的逆境。该研究最后提出了干预建议©2020,International Journal of wellbeing Charitable Trust版权所有
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