Study on the Learning Adaptability and Mental Health of Wuhan College Students During the Outbreak of COVID-19

Objective: In this study to explore the relationships between learning adaptability and mental health of Wuhan college students during the epidemic period. Methods: This study was conducted among Wuhan college students in the form of questionnaire, with 484 valid data collected and processed by SPSS24.0 software. Descriptive statistics, independent-sample T-test, single factor analysis of variance, correlation analysis and regression analysis were adopted for this study. Results: (i) The learning adaptability of Wuhan college students was in the general level. (ii) These three variables, sex, region, grade, had no significant effect on learning adaptability. (iii) Learning adaptability was positively correlated with cognitive function, positive emotions and mental health while it was significantly negatively correlated with psychological symptoms and negative emotions. (iv) Eight percent change of learning adaptability (LA) could be interpreted by positive emotions (PE), cognitive function (CF) as well as psychological symptoms and negative emotions (PS&NE). The formula for the relationship was: LA=1.55+0.06*CF+0.10*PE-0.05*PS&NE. Conclusion: College students’ learning adaptability which is not correlated with sex, region or grade, but highly related with mental health, is in the general level.