Wang Juanjuan, Wang Chen, Gu Xiaoming, Sun Yi
School of English Teacher Education Xi'an International Studies University Xi'an China.
Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Guangzhou China.
Psychol Sch. 2022 Dec 1. doi: 10.1002/pits.22833.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global crisis resulting in lockdowns worldwide. Studies found that these could amplify negative affects predictive of disturbances in time perception. However, all existing studies on this topic concentrated on the general population during a lockdown at home. There was no research on university students living in dormitories. This study fills a gap in the literature by investigating the affective states and awareness of the passage of time of Chinese university students during an exceptional dormitory lockdown. Using a snowball sampling approach, this web-based study recruited 225 volunteers (136 girls, 17-27 years old) during a dormitory lockdown. The online survey consisted of questions on demographic information, affective states (the Chinese version of the depression anxiety stress scales-21 (DASS-21) on depression, anxiety, and stress), and sense of the passage of time (the translated version of the assessment of passage of time over daily, weekly and yearly periods). The researchers shared the questionnaire link via the social media application WeChat. The study applied descriptive statistics and column charts to represent students' affective states and sense of the passage of time under extreme conditions and Pearson's correlation analysis to examine the impact of affective states on their sense of time. The study's results indicate that the dormitory lockdown caused a significant increase in all depression, anxiety, and stress categories of the DASS-21, as well as a distortion of the sense of time passing. However, the direction of the distortion differed from that in previous studies. Moreover, a Pearson correlation analysis showed that none of the three negative affects could be associated with students' sense of time. The findings of this study indicate an increased vulnerability of students due to the lockdown. Their emotions were strongly affected, requiring particular interventions to preserve their mental well-being. In addition, they showed a different distortion direction of time passage. Finally, they differed in the correlations between negative affect and the sense of passage of time compared to the general population in lockdown at home. This shows a need to investigate the impact of psychological states on students' routines and quality of life in emergencies. This study's scope should be expanded by incorporating additional factors pertaining to the passage of time and by integrating cross-cultural comparisons.
新冠疫情引发了一场全球危机，导致全球范围内实施封锁。研究发现，这些封锁可能会加剧那些预示着时间感知紊乱的负面影响。然而，此前所有关于这一主题的研究都集中在居家封锁期间的普通人群。尚无针对居住在宿舍的大学生的研究。本研究通过调查中国大学生在特殊的宿舍封锁期间的情感状态和对时间流逝的感知，填补了这一文献空白。本基于网络的研究采用滚雪球抽样法，在宿舍封锁期间招募了225名志愿者（136名女生，年龄在17至27岁之间）。在线调查包括有关人口统计学信息、情感状态（中文版抑郁焦虑压力量表-21（DASS-21）中的抑郁、焦虑和压力）以及时间流逝感（日常、每周和每年时间流逝评估的翻译版本）的问题。研究人员通过社交媒体应用微信分享问卷链接。本研究应用描述性统计和柱状图来呈现学生在极端条件下的情感状态和时间流逝感，并采用皮尔逊相关分析来检验情感状态对其时间感的影响。研究结果表明，宿舍封锁导致DASS-21中所有抑郁、焦虑和压力类别显著增加，以及时间流逝感的扭曲。然而，这种扭曲的方向与以往研究不同。此外，皮尔逊相关分析表明，这三种负面影响均与学生的时间感无关。本研究结果表明，封锁使学生更容易受到伤害。他们的情绪受到强烈影响，需要采取特别干预措施来维护他们的心理健康。此外，他们表现出不同的时间流逝扭曲方向。最后，与居家封锁的普通人群相比，他们在负面影响与时间流逝感之间的相关性方面存在差异。这表明有必要调查心理状态对学生在紧急情况下的日常生活和生活质量的影响。应通过纳入与时间流逝相关的其他因素并进行跨文化比较来扩大本研究的范围。
