Hu Yangxiu, Ye Baojuan, Tan Jiawen
School of Psychology, Center of Preschool Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.
Center of Mental Health Education, Anhui Health College, Chizhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 11;12:707079. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.707079. eCollection 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently a global health threat attributed to negatively affecting the mental health and well-being of people globally. The purpose of the current study is to examine the mediating roles of economic insecurity and mental health literacy in the relationship between stress about COVID-19 and anxiety. Results from the current study using a large sample of Chinese college students ( = 1,334) showed that stress of COVID-19 was positively associated with economic insecurity and anxiety while negatively associated with mental health literacy, which in turn was negatively associated with anxiety. These results elucidate our understanding of the role of mediators in stress about COVID-19 and anxiety. The findings are useful in terms of providing evidence for tailoring interventions and implementing preventative approaches to mitigate anxiety due to stress of COVID-19. Based on the present findings and within the context of COVID-19, the potential utility of promoting MHL to reduce the psychopathological consequences of COVID-19 is discussed.
目前，新冠疫情是一种全球健康威胁，对全球人们的心理健康和幸福产生负面影响。本研究的目的是检验经济不安全感和心理健康素养在新冠疫情压力与焦虑之间关系中的中介作用。使用大量中国大学生样本（=1334）的本研究结果表明，新冠疫情压力与经济不安全感和焦虑呈正相关，而与心理健康素养呈负相关，心理健康素养又与焦虑呈负相关。这些结果阐明了我们对中介因素在新冠疫情压力和焦虑中作用的理解。这些发现有助于为制定干预措施和实施预防方法提供证据，以减轻因新冠疫情压力而产生的焦虑。基于目前的研究结果并在新冠疫情背景下，讨论了促进心理健康素养以减少新冠疫情心理病理后果的潜在效用。
