School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, 193 Tunxi Rd, Hefei, Anhui, 230009, People's Republic of China.
School of Finance and Public Administration, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, #962 Caoshan Road, Bengbu City, Anhui, China.
BMC Psychiatry. 2024 Jan 12;24(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-05506-8.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health crisis. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health has attracted great attention. However, there is a lack of research on the relationship between academic stress and depression in Chinese college students and its mechanisms. Therefore, this study investigated the mechanisms of coping style, sleep quality, and interpersonal relationship in academic stress and depression among college students.
The cross-sectional study was conducted from May to June 2022 through face-to-face questionnaires with college students in Anhui Province, China. The questionnaires included sociodemographic information, the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, and the Self-Rating Depression Scale. Ordered logistic regression model was used to study the relationship between academic stress and depression of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic through the mechanism analysis of coping style, sleep quality and interpersonal relationship.
Two thousand thirty-three Chinese college students participated in the study, including 1,285 female and 748 male college students, with an average age 19.81 years old (SD = 1.22 years old). The results showed that (1) Academic stress had a significant impact on depression in college students under the background of COVID-19 (p < 0.01); (2) The influence of academic stress on depression had a difference in work experience as student cadres, which showed that college students who had served as student cadres were less affected by academic stress (p < 0.10), college students who had not served as student cadres were greatly affected by the academic stress (p < 0.05); (3) College students' attitudes toward COVID-19 significantly affected depression (p < 0.01); (4) Counselors' concern had a significant impact on college students' depression (p < 0.01); (5) Positive coping style, high quality sleep and good interpersonal relationship were the important mechanisms of the impact of academic stress on college students' depression.
This study provides new findings for in-depth understanding of the relationship between academic stress and depression among college students in China during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is conducive to the provision of targeted intervention measures for the mental health of college students.
COVID-19 大流行是一场全球性的公共卫生危机。在 COVID-19 大流行期间，心理健康受到了极大关注。然而，目前针对中国大学生学业压力与抑郁之间的关系及其机制的研究还很缺乏。因此，本研究旨在探讨应对方式、睡眠质量和人际关系在大学生学业压力与抑郁之间的作用机制。
本横断面研究于 2022 年 5 月至 6 月期间通过面对面问卷的方式在中国安徽省的大学生中进行。问卷包括社会人口学信息、简化应对方式问卷和自评抑郁量表。采用有序逻辑回归模型，通过应对方式、睡眠质量和人际关系的机制分析，研究 COVID-19 大流行期间大学生学业压力与抑郁的关系。
共有 2033 名中国大学生参与了本研究，其中包括 1285 名女性和 748 名男性，平均年龄为 19.81 岁（标准差=1.22 岁）。结果表明：（1）在 COVID-19 大流行背景下，大学生的学业压力对抑郁有显著影响（p<0.01）；（2）学业压力对抑郁的影响在担任学生干部的工作经历方面存在差异，表现为担任过学生干部的大学生受学业压力影响较小（p<0.10），未担任过学生干部的大学生受学业压力影响较大（p<0.05）；（3）大学生对 COVID-19 的态度显著影响抑郁（p<0.01）；（4）辅导员的关心对大学生的抑郁有显著影响（p<0.01）；（5）积极的应对方式、高质量的睡眠和良好的人际关系是学业压力对大学生抑郁影响的重要机制。
本研究为深入了解 COVID-19 大流行期间中国大学生学业压力与抑郁之间的关系提供了新的发现，有助于为大学生的心理健康提供有针对性的干预措施。
