Yong Minglee, Suh Hanna
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 7;13:816961. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.816961. eCollection 2022.
The psychological effects of COVID-19 have been documented in the past year, but scarce literature exists on the nature of COVID-19 stressors. Using a random split sample of 1199 young adult university students, results of exploratory factor analyses (EFA) identified a four-factor structure in the COVID-19 Stressors Questionnaire (C19SQ), which were labeled Resource Constraints, Social Restrictions, Future Uncertainty, and Health Concerns. This model was supported by a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) when run on the other split sample of 1139 university students. Higher levels of COVID-19 stress were positively associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms and negatively associated with sleep duration, sleep quality, and the number of exercise days. COVID-19 stress also uniquely predicted poor university adjustment. This study demonstrated the link between COVID-19 stressors and mental and physical health symptoms, thus providing support for conceptualizing the psychological impact of the pandemic as adjustment problems for some individuals.
过去一年里，新冠疫情的心理影响已有记录，但关于新冠疫情压力源本质的文献却很少。通过对1199名青年大学生进行随机分组抽样，探索性因素分析（EFA）结果在新冠疫情压力源问卷（C19SQ）中确定了一个四因素结构，分别标记为资源限制、社会限制、未来不确定性和健康担忧。当在另一个由1139名大学生组成的分组样本上进行验证性因素分析（CFA）时，该模型得到了支持。更高水平的新冠疫情压力与焦虑和抑郁症状呈正相关，与睡眠时间、睡眠质量和锻炼天数呈负相关。新冠疫情压力还独特地预测了大学适应不良。这项研究证明了新冠疫情压力源与身心健康症状之间的联系，从而为将疫情的心理影响概念化为一些个体的适应问题提供了支持。
