School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.
PLoS One. 2021 Feb 10;16(2):e0246676. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246676. eCollection 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic has unhinged the lives of people across the globe. In particular, more than 30 million Chinese college students are home-schooling, yet there is little understanding of how academic workload, separation from school, and fears of contagion lead to a decrease in their health. This study examined the relationships between Chinese college students' three critical stressors and two types of health in the COVID-19 pandemic context. We used a three-wave lagged design with a one-week interval. All the constructs were assessed by self-report in anonymous surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic. College students were asked to report their demographic information, academic workload, separation from school, fears of contagion, perceived stress, and health. The results of this study showed that academic workload, separation from school, and fears of contagion had negative effects on college students' health via perceived stress. In the COVID-19 crisis, multiple prevention and control measures focusing on college students may lead them to have different degrees of stress and health problems. Our results enrich the literature on stress and health and offer novel practical implications for all circles of the society to ensure students' health under the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.
新冠疫情打乱了全球各地人们的生活。特别是，超过 3000 万中国大学生在家接受教育，但对于学业负担、与学校隔离以及对感染的恐惧如何导致他们健康状况下降，人们知之甚少。本研究考察了新冠疫情背景下，中国大学生的三个关键压力源与两种健康类型之间的关系。我们使用了具有一周间隔的三波滞后设计。所有结构均通过匿名调查在新冠疫情期间进行自我报告评估。大学生被要求报告他们的人口统计信息、学业负担、与学校的隔离、对感染的恐惧、感知压力和健康状况。本研究结果表明，学业负担、与学校的隔离以及对感染的恐惧会通过感知压力对大学生的健康产生负面影响。在新冠疫情危机中，针对大学生的多项防控措施可能会导致他们产生不同程度的压力和健康问题。我们的研究结果丰富了压力与健康方面的文献，并为社会各界在新冠疫情背景下确保学生健康提供了新的实践意义。
