Abstract
COVID-19 has changed the way of learning and life of college students. The purpose is to explore the relationship between perceived stress and anxiety, and the mediating effect of resilience and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in college students during COVID-19. 309 students from three colleges were selected as research participants (average age 19.79 ± 1.11 years). SPSS was used to measure the correlation between variables. Amos was used to test the path coefficient and mediating effect of the hypothetical model. The results show that: Firstly, perceived stress has a significantly and positively predictive effect on anxiety. Secondly, psychological resilience and regulatory emotional self-efficacy independently played a significant and partially mediating effect between perceived stress and anxiety. Among them, perceived stress had a negative predictive effect on psychological resilience and regulatory emotional self-efficacy. Psychological resilience and regulatory emotional self-efficacy had a negative predictive effect on anxiety. Thirdly, psychological resilience and regulatory emotional self-efficacy play a chain mediation role between psychological stress and anxiety. Regulatory emotional self-efficacy cannot only directly predict the level of anxiety, but also indirectly predict the level of anxiety by regulating psychological resilience. This study reveals the relationship between college students’ perceived stress and anxiety, and the mediating effect of psychological resilience and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in the new time of COVID-19. The chain mediation role of psychological resilience and regulatory emotional self-efficacy reminds college mental health educators that improving students’ regulatory emotional self-efficacy is an important way to promote students’ mental health.
Highlights
The pressure of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a great impact on people’s physical and mental health all over the world
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about changes in the way college students study and socialize, which poses a threat to their mental health
This study aims to explore the influence of psychological resilience and emotional regulation on the relationship between perceived stress and anxiety among college students, and explore the internal connection mechanism of perceived stress and anxiety among college students under the background of COVID-19 prevention and control normalization
Summary
The pressure of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a great impact on people’s physical and mental health all over the world. IJMHP, 2022, vol., no.2 proposed that natural disasters, as a stressful event, can have an impact on mental health and may cause symptoms such as anxiety and depression [2]. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about changes in the way college students study and socialize, which poses a threat to their mental health. College students is a large number of special group. They are in the stage of substantial independence with the obvious reduction of direct guidance and supervision from parents [6]. Compared with students in other stages, college students need to face negative emotions such as pressure and anxiety alone [7]. Research on the stress and emotions of college students during COVID19 can help improve the situation
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