Department of Education Management, Chinese International College, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand.
School of Design, Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Haikou, China.
PLoS One. 2024 Feb 1;19(2):e0298044. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298044. eCollection 2024.
The Chinese government adjusted its national epidemic prevention and control policy in December 2022 after the worldwide declaration of COVID-19 as a common influenza. After the policy adjustment, there has been widespread infection in China, which has brought a lot of uncertainty to the lives and studies of Chinese university students. This study focused on the impact of the intolerance of uncertainty for COVID-19 (IUC) on the emotional and mental health of college students in China "Post-pandemic" age. This study examined the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation (DER) between IUC and mental health (MH). 1,281 university students in China were surveyed using the intolerance of uncertainty for COVID-19 scale, the difficulties in emotion regulation scale and the mental health scale. A structural equation model was used to test the hypothesis model, and it was shown that IUC had a significant negative effect on the MH of college students and a significant positive effect on the DER. DER had a significant negative effect on the MH, and DER had a complete mediation effect between IUC and MH. The findings of this study enrich our understanding of the influencing factors of mental health of university students under the background of post-epidemic in China, and provide practical reference for universities on how to prevent mental health problems under the current uncertain environment in China.
中国政府在 2022 年 12 月世界宣布 COVID-19 为普通流感后调整了国家防疫政策。政策调整后，中国出现了广泛的感染，这给中国大学生的生活和学习带来了很多不确定性。本研究关注的是对 COVID-19 的不确定性容忍度（IUC）对中国“后疫情”时代大学生情绪和心理健康的影响。本研究检验了情绪调节困难（DER）在 IUC 和心理健康（MH）之间的中介作用。采用 COVID-19 不确定容忍量表、情绪调节困难量表和心理健康量表对中国 1281 名大学生进行了调查。采用结构方程模型检验假设模型，结果表明，IUC 对大学生的 MH 有显著的负向影响，对 DER 有显著的正向影响。DER 对 MH 有显著的负向影响，DER 在 IUC 和 MH 之间具有完全中介作用。本研究的结果丰富了我们对中国后疫情时代大学生心理健康影响因素的认识，为高校在当前不确定的中国环境下如何预防心理健康问题提供了实践参考。
