Duong Cong Doanh
Faculty of Business Management, National Economics University, Viet Nam.
Pers Individ Dif. 2021 Aug;178:110869. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110869. Epub 2021 Mar 24.
Little is known about the impacts of covid-19 pandemic on mental health problems among youth population whereas this information is extremely necessary to develop appropriate actions to support these young people overcoming psychological crisis and increasing satisfaction with life during the disease outbreak. This study not only explores the influences of fear and anxiety of covid-19 on life satisfaction, but it also examines the mediating roles of psychological distress and sleep disturbance in this linkage. 1521 students from universities in Vietnam was assessed utilizing the online-based cross-sectional survey. The study revealed that fear and anxiety of covid-19 was strongly related to psychological distress and sleep disturbance and life satisfaction among Vietnamese university students. Also, life satisfaction was found to have a strong and negative association with psychological distress, but without sleep disturbance. Moreover, the findings of the study revealed that fear and anxiety of covid-19 reduced life satisfaction and increased sleep disturbance via psychological distress. This study was expected to contribute to the extant literature by enriching our understanding the serious impacts of covid-19 pandemic on youths' mental health as well as provide some useful references for policy makers to prevent the occurrence of psychological crisis among university students.
关于新冠疫情对青年人群心理健康问题的影响，我们所知甚少，而这些信息对于制定适当行动，以支持这些年轻人在疫情爆发期间克服心理危机并提高生活满意度极为必要。本研究不仅探讨了对新冠的恐惧和焦虑对生活满意度的影响，还考察了心理困扰和睡眠障碍在这种联系中的中介作用。通过基于网络的横断面调查对越南1521名大学生进行了评估。研究表明，越南大学生对新冠的恐惧和焦虑与心理困扰、睡眠障碍及生活满意度密切相关。此外，研究发现生活满意度与心理困扰呈强烈负相关，但与睡眠障碍无关。而且，研究结果显示，对新冠的恐惧和焦虑通过心理困扰降低了生活满意度并增加了睡眠障碍。本研究有望通过丰富我们对新冠疫情对青少年心理健康的严重影响的理解，为现有文献做出贡献，并为政策制定者预防大学生心理危机的发生提供一些有用的参考。
