Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Newark, Ohio, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2024 Dec;72(9):3621-3631. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2023.2186129. Epub 2023 Mar 28.
Did living through the COVID-19 pandemic cause healthy college students to experience "pandemic-brain," a phenomenon characterized by difficulties with various cognitive abilities? Did students shift from deliberative to more impulsive decision making?
We compared a pre-pandemic sample of 722 undergraduate students to 161 undergraduate students recruited in Fall 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We compared scores on the Adult Decision Making Competence scale among participants who completed the task pre-pandemic or across two time points in Fall 2020, during the pandemic.
Decision making was less consistent and more reliant on gain/loss framing during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic, but college students were no less confident in their decisions. No significant changes in decision making occurred during the pandemic.
These decision making changes could increase the risk of making an impulsive choice with negative health consequences affecting demands on student health centers and imperiling learning environments.
新冠疫情是否导致健康的大学生出现“疫情脑”，即各种认知能力出现困难的现象？学生是否从深思熟虑转变为更冲动的决策？
我们将 722 名本科生的疫情前样本与 2020 年秋季招募的 161 名本科生进行了比较，当时正值新冠疫情期间。
我们比较了在疫情前完成任务或在 2020 年秋季两个时间点完成任务的参与者在成人决策能力量表上的得分。
与疫情前相比，大学生在疫情期间的决策一致性较差，更依赖于收益/损失框架，但他们对自己的决策没有那么自信。疫情期间，决策行为没有明显变化。
这些决策变化可能会增加做出冲动选择的风险，对学生健康中心的需求产生负面影响，并危及学习环境。
