COVID-19 Infection Risk and Depressive Symptoms Among Young Adults During Quarantine: The Moderating Role of Grit and Social Support

Hou, Jie; Yu, Qingyun; Lan, Xiaoyu

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577942

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“…National and international surveys have revealed that 1 in 2 young adults (aged 18-29 years) are subject to depression and anxiety and 1 in 6 are probably affected [21]. These results are in line with many studies on the current pandemic revealing higher psychological distress and depressive symptoms, particularly among young adults [22,23].…”

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confidence: 76%

Post-Lockdown Effects on Students’ Mental Health in Romania: Perceived Stress – The Impact of Missing Daily Social Interactions and Boredom Proneness

Dumitrache¹,

Stănculescu²,

Nae³

et al. 2021

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The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide was accompanied by intense fears, confusion, worries, anger and stress threatening people’s mental health. Unprecedented measures to slow down and prevent the transmission of COVID-19 have had various impacts on the population’s health behaviour and mental health. The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the lockdown’s effects on university students’ mental health in Romania. Based on a cross-sectional design, the survey data were collected from a sample of 722 participants (247 males; M = 21.1 years; SD ± 1.73). A path analysis was performed to verify the hypothesised direct and indirect effects included in the multiple mediation model. The findings showed a positive association between stress and boredom proneness, missing daily social interactions, spending more time on phone conversations and the increasing interest in following news about the pandemic. The path analysis revealed an excellent fit between the proposed multiple mediation model and the sample data. Boredom proneness and missing daily social interactions both affected stress, directly and indirectly, through more time spent on phone conversations. In addition, it was found that the increased interest in following news about the pan-demic mediated the relationship between boredom proneness and perceived stress. In terms of gender differences, our findings revealed that female students experienced significantly higher stress levels than male students, perceived to a greater extent the lack of daily social interactions and spent more time on phone conversations. Overall, the findings further extend the empirical evidence on university students’ mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, universities need to organise support programmes focused on developing university students’ coping strategies to maintain their mental health even in adverse contexts.

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confidence: 76%

Post-Lockdown Effects on Students’ Mental Health in Romania: Perceived Stress – The Impact of Missing Daily Social Interactions and Boredom Proneness

Dumitrache¹,

Stănculescu²,

Nae³

et al. 2021

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“…Specifically, this study will discriminate the different perceived levels of social support among students and its impacts on students' coping tendency, and then further investigate the effect of social support-coping mode on students' mental health. The results of previous social support theory-related studies show that social support, as an important environmental resource for individuals in social life, is closely related to the control and prevention of negative emotions; good social support can provide protection for individuals under stress and has a generally beneficial effect on maintaining the health and stabilizing the mood of individuals (Martín-Albo et al, 2015 ; Hou et al, 2020 ). The same stressful situation can have different impacts on different individuals (Guay et al, 2013 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

What Type of Social Support Is Important for Student Resilience During COVID-19? A Latent Profile Analysis

Mai

Yan-ni³

2021

Front. Psychol.

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In the face of the sudden outbreak of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), some students showed resilience in coping with difficulties while some did not. While different types of students showed different levels of resilience, are there significant characteristics among students with similar levels of resilience? In this study, 3,454 students (aged 15–25 years) were surveyed to understand students' perceived social support-coping modes while investigating the demographic characteristics and mental health status of subclasses of different modes. We found that (1) in the two subgroups of students with extremely low and low levels of perceived social support, the source of students' perceived social support did not have a clear orientation; in the two subgroups with moderate and high levels of perceived social support, the most perceived emotional support was from family and friends, while the least perceived support was companionship from teachers, classmates, and relatives, and problems related to the dependability of friends and communication with family. (2) The degree of social support perceived by students is directly proportional to the coping tendency, i.e., as the degree of perceived social support increases, the proportion of students adopting active coping strategies increases while that of students adopting negative coping strategies decreases; thus, we concluded that high levels of emotional support from family and friends can increase students' tendency of adopting positive strategies to cope with difficulties, while problems related to the dependability of friends and communication with family decrease students' tendency of adopting positive coping strategies. (3) Gender had a significant impact on the extremely low and low levels of perceived social support-negative coping tendencies; these subgroups accounted for 34.6% of the total students. Gender showed no significant influence on other subgroups, a school type had no impact on the distribution of the subgroups. (4) The higher the degree of perceived social support, the lower is the degree of students' general anxiety, and the lower is the degree of impact by the COVID-19 pandemic. The subdivision of student groups allows us to design more targeted support programmes for students with different psychological characteristics to help them alleviate stress during the COVID-19 epidemic.

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“…In addition to these training programs, workplace incivility scholars suggest that service organizations should give FSEs a short break after difficult customer encounters (Kim and Qu 2019 ; Sliter et al 2010 ) since it would enable them to recover from stress and recharge their resources. At last, in the light of the findings that social support can alleviate COVID-related stress and anxiety and fortify employees’ coping capabilities (Charoensukmongkol and Phungsoonthorn 2020 ; Hou et al 2020 ), service organizations need to provide managerial and peer support for FSEs who are exposed to interpersonal stressors amid the pandemic.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impacts of customer incivility and abusive supervision on employee performance: a comparative study of the pre- and post-COVID-19 periods

2021

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The purpose of our study was to assess the effects of customer incivility and abusive supervision on employee performance during the pre- and post-COVID-19 periods. Our two-wave panel data collected from South Korean frontline service employees revealed that the indirect effect of customer incivility on job performance through emotional exhaustion became more pronounced after the onset of the pandemic. Furthermore, during the pandemic, customer incivility exerted a greater indirect effect on job performance through emotional exhaustion than abusive supervision. These findings offer insights for effectively managing frontline service employees’ stress in times of crisis, including pandemics.

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COVID-19 Infection Risk and Depressive Symptoms Among Young Adults During Quarantine: The Moderating Role of Grit and Social Support

Cited by 32 publications

References 79 publications

Post-Lockdown Effects on Students’ Mental Health in Romania: Perceived Stress – The Impact of Missing Daily Social Interactions and Boredom Proneness

Post-Lockdown Effects on Students’ Mental Health in Romania: Perceived Stress – The Impact of Missing Daily Social Interactions and Boredom Proneness

What Type of Social Support Is Important for Student Resilience During COVID-19? A Latent Profile Analysis

Impacts of customer incivility and abusive supervision on employee performance: a comparative study of the pre- and post-COVID-19 periods

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