Mental Health and Academic Performance during COVID-19: The Pre-Dominant Role of Perceived Stress, Anxiety, and Depression on Academic Performance

Abstract

The rising concerns regarding mental health arising from the challenges due to pandemics emerged and it’s negative effects on academic performance. Stress and depression levels affected students’ mental well-being as well as academic performance. Surprisingly, this study revealed that the anxiety level of this young generation due to COVID-19 does not influence their activities rather students to have a strong mental capacity to maintain adverse situations. The most possible reason could be their belief that the impact of coronavirus is very low among the young generation. Therefore, they are not anxious about the coronavirus during the pandemic. Rather, they are having depression and stress due to the absence of a proper educational environment.