Abstract
Background: COVID-19 has had a wide impact on the mental health of college students. This study aims to explore the relationship between time perception, risk perception, and the mental health of college students during COVID-19 through a questionnaire survey.Subjects: One thousand two hundred and eighteen college students, 449 male and 769 female, who studied online during the COVID-19 epidemic were selected.Methods: Time Perception Scale, Risk Perception Scale, and SCL-90 were used to investigate the relationship using correlation analysis.Results: During the COVID-19 period, mental health problems of college students were widespread, and 65.93% of college students reported moderate to severe mental health problems. The correlation analysis showed that risk perception, time perception, and the mental health of college students were significantly related. Risk perception played a partial mediating role between present enjoyment and mental health, and risk perception played a partial mediating role between future time perception and mental health.Conclusion: In the case of sudden public crises, we should pay close attention to the mental health of college students, adjust their attitude toward the present and the future, and pay attention to their perception of risk so as to improve their mental health level under crisis.
Highlights
COVID-19 has had a wide impact on the mental health of college students
64.7% of college students have moderate to severe mental health problems, and there is no significant difference in gender, age, and grade (P > 0.05)
We find that the negative past dimension of Time Perspective (TP) is not related to Risk Perception (RP), the positive past dimension is not associated with Mental Health (MH), and the fatalism dimension is not associated with RP, which is different from previous studies [13]
Summary
COVID-19 has had a wide impact on the mental health of college students. This study aims to explore the relationship between time perception, risk perception, and the mental health of college students during COVID-19 through a questionnaire survey.Subjects: One thousand two hundred and eighteen college students, 449 male and 769 female, who studied online during the COVID-19 epidemic were selected. In a public health crisis, the mental health needs of college students may be ignored, and due to the lack of control over their own environment, they tend to bear more significant mental health pressure [4] For college students, they left school during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a significant impact on their physical and mental health. Some college students even experienced poor sleep quality, loss of appetite, increased sedentary behavior, and loss of cardiometabolic health [5] It is of great practical and theoretical significance to study the impact of this sudden public crisis on college student’s mental health and how to help college students better cope with the crisis and maintain their mental health
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