Self-care behaviors, drinking, and smoking to cope with psychological distress during COVID-19 among Chinese college students : the role of resilience

OBJECTIVE: College students are vulnerable to psychological distress during COVID-19 due to pandemic-related stressors. In response to psychological distress, college students engage in various coping behaviors, such as self-care behaviors and substance use. The transactional model of stress and coping depicts a cognitive appraisal process in the stress-coping association. Psychological resilience is an essential factor for the cognitive appraisal. This study aimed to investigate the mediation effects of resilience on psycho-behavioral health in response to COVID-19 stressors.

DESIGN: Longitudinal data were collected from 1,225 Chinese college students via web-based anonymous surveys at wave 1 (T1, between Jan 31 and Feb 11, 2020) and wave 2 (T2, between Mar 20 and Apr 3, 2020).

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Participants reported their COVID-19 stressors (T1), resilience (T1), psychological distress (depression and anxiety; T2), and coping behaviors (self-care behaviors, drinking, and smoking; T2). Path analysis was used for data analyses.

RESULTS: Resilience mediated the association between COVID-19 stressors and psychological distress. Resilience together with psychological distress mediated the association of COVID-19 stressors with self-care behaviors or drinking.

CONCLUSIONS: Resilience appears to offer protection that promotes psycho-behavioral health in college students in the face of COVID-19 stressors. Interventions for college students should attend to resilience.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

Psychology & health - 38(2023), 9 vom: 02. Sept., Seite 1174-1193

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tam, Cheuk Chi [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Zhi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yuyan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaoming [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Danhua [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anxiety
COVID-19
College students
Depression
Journal Article
Resilience
Self-care behaviors
Substance use

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Date Revised 21.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/08870446.2021.2007913

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33429519X