Anticipated Negative Responses by Students to Possible Ebola Virus Outbreak, Guangzhou, China

Lau, Joseph; Wang, Zixin; Kim, Yoona; Gu, Jing; Wu, Anise M. S.; Zhou, Qianling; Hao, Chun; Cheng, Perry; Hao, Yuantao

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“…The results also suggest that daily social factors and drinking motives might play a more important role than affecting drinking behaviors, which is in line with previous research [ 71 ]. We found that students’ stress, anxiety, and depression levels were higher during the Post-Lockdown as compared with Lockdown, which agrees with evidence suggesting increased psychological distress in the general population [ 72 , 73 ] but also in college students during outbreaks of infectious diseases [ 74 , 75 , 76 ]. Though young adults are less likely to suffer acute symptoms of COVID-19 relative to older individuals, the evidence gathered here reveals how they were nevertheless psychologically impacted by the pandemic.…”

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Effects of the COVID-19 Mitigation Measures on Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in College Students: A Longitudinal Survey

Vasconcelos

Crego

Rodrigues

et al. 2021

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To “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 contagion, several countries ordered lockdowns amid the pandemic along with indications on social distancing. These social isolation measures could potentially bring alterations to healthy behavior, including to alcohol consumption. However, there is hardly any scientific evidence of the impact of such measures on alcohol consumption and binge drinking (BD) among young adults, and how they relate to alcohol craving, stress, anxiety, and depression levels. We addressed these questions by conducting a longitudinal study with 146 Portuguese college students—regular binge drinkers (regular BDs), infrequent binge drinkers (infrequent BDs) and non-binge drinkers (non-BDs)—in three moments: before the pandemic (Pre-Lockdown), during lockdown (Lockdown) and 6 months after (Post-Lockdown). Results revealed that regular BDs decreased alcohol use during Lockdown, a change in behavior that was even greater during Post-Lockdown, when regular BDs displayed similar levels of consumption to infrequent/non-BDs. Additionally, alcohol craving and living with friends were predictive of alcohol use during Lockdown, whereas stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms did not contribute to explain changes in drinking behavior. Collectively, the results suggest that BD in young Portuguese college students can be stopped when the contexts in which alcohol intake usually takes place are suppressed, which may have important implications for future prevention and intervention strategies.

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confidence: 88%

Effects of the COVID-19 Mitigation Measures on Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in College Students: A Longitudinal Survey

Vasconcelos

Crego

Rodrigues

et al. 2021

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“…Previous outbreaks of infectious disease (e.g. SARS, Ebola, MERS) have shown the detrimental influences of disease‐related stress on emerging psychological distress (Lau et al, 2016; Lee et al, 2018; Zheng et al, 2005). Similarly, the pandemic itself and responses (e.g.…”

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Resilience, Social Support, and Coping as Mediators between COVID‐19‐related Stressful Experiences and Acute Stress Disorder among College Students in China

Liu

Yang

Zeng

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Applied Psych Health & Well

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Background The COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak might induce acute stress disorder (ASD) to people living in the epidemic regions. The current study aims to investigate the association of COVID‐19‐related stressful experiences with ASD and possible psychological mechanisms of the association among college students. Methods Data were collected from 7,800 college students via an online survey during the initial stage of the COVID‐19 outbreak in China (from 31 January to 11 February 2020). Existing scales were adapted to measure stressful experiences, resilience, coping, social support, and ASD symptoms. Path analysis was employed to examine the research hypotheses. Results Among the 7,800 college students, 61.53% were women and their mean age was 20.54 years. Both direct and indirect effects from COVID‐19‐related stressful experiences to ASD symptoms were significant. The relationship between COVID‐19‐related stressful experiences and ASD could be mediated by resilience ( β = 0.01, p < .001), adaptive coping strategies ( β = 0.02, p < .001), and social support ( β = 0.01, p < .001); while not being significantly mediated by maladaptive coping strategies. Conclusion The findings presented the ASD symptoms related to the COVID‐19 outbreak and the mediating role of interpersonal and intrapersonal factors in the association. Identifying the risk and protective factors is important to reduce acute psychological responses.

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“…However, the university campus environment poses a high risk of spreading infectious diseases, as it is a mass gathering place for youth (Xu et al, 2011). According to Lau, Wang, Kim, Gu, Wu, Zhou, and Hao (2016), many students perceived severe consequences if a small outbreak occurred and these young adults believed an outbreak would have a high fatality rate. Besides, Trevors, Muis, Pekrun, Sinatra, and Muijselaar (2017) explore individuals' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and their emotions as potentially interrelated sets of learner characteristics.…”

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Emotional Challenges across the Welfare provided among the Stranded University Students during Covid-19 Pandemic

Zakaria

Kadir

Abdillah

et al. 2021

E-BPJ

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The Movement Control Order (MCO) for Covid-19 safety measure caused worry and anxiety among university students, especially those stranded in their university hostels or rental accommodation. Universities’ staffs helped their basic living and study needs. This study aims to determine the emotional challenges among these students and examine the association between their emotion score across the university’s welfare. Based on a survey of 284 respondents, the findings show that there is a significant difference between their emotion and stranded locations. Residential facilities, information updates and food provided are substantial to their emotions scores. Keywords: Emotional Challenges; Covid-19 Pandemic; Stranded Students; University Welfare eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI:

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Anticipated Negative Responses by Students to Possible Ebola Virus Outbreak, Guangzhou, China

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Effects of the COVID-19 Mitigation Measures on Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in College Students: A Longitudinal Survey

Effects of the COVID-19 Mitigation Measures on Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in College Students: A Longitudinal Survey

Resilience, Social Support, and Coping as Mediators between COVID‐19‐related Stressful Experiences and Acute Stress Disorder among College Students in China

Emotional Challenges across the Welfare provided among the Stranded University Students during Covid-19 Pandemic

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