COVID-19-related stressful experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among college students in China: A moderated mediation model of perceived control over the future and empathy

Ye, Zhi; Zeng, Chengbo; Yang, Xueying; Tam, Cheuk Chi; Wang, Yuyan; Qiao, Shan; Li, Xiaoming; Lin, Danhua

doi:10.1177/18344909221119830

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“…Moreover, consistent with prior research (Hasking et al, 2021; Xiao et al, 2022; Yam et al, 2023; Ye et al, 2022), more exposure to pandemic-related stress experiences was associated with increases in problematic behaviors amid the pandemic, whereas receiving greater social support was linked to better behavioral adaptation to pandemic conditions (Rui & Guo, 2023). Specifically, family support (but not peer support) was protective for children and adolescents’ adaptation amid the pandemic, since having more family support was associated with fewer increases in self-injury behaviors during the pandemic.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Empirical research corroborates this finding, observing that individuals having prior exposure to adversities were at a higher risk of psychological distress (Fernández et al, 2020;Mazza et al, 2020) and non-suicidal self-injury behaviors (Plener, 2021;Yong et al, 2023) amid the pandemic. Moreover, stress experiences related to the pandemic may aggregate children and adolescents' maladaptation to pandemic situations (Ye et al, 2022). Prior research examining perceptions and experiences associated with the pandemic has observed a higher risk of problem behaviors among individuals who perceived greater pandemic-related stress, including more self-injury behaviors (Xiao et al, 2022) and greater smartphone addiction (Yam et al, 2023).…”

Section: Factors Associated With Behavioral Outcomes During the Covid...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Protective and risk factors associated with problem behaviors among disadvantaged children and adolescents in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic

Xie,

Sun,

Nuttall

et al. 2023

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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The global pandemic of COVID-19 has posed critical challenges for child and adolescent health. Prior research, however, has mostly focused on mental health, adult samples, and cross-sectional designs. Using latent change score modeling, this study addressed this gap by examining problem behaviors (operationalized as non-suicidal self-injury behaviors, smartphone addiction, and excessive screen time) under pandemic conditions, by comparing their behaviors before (December 2019) versus during the pandemic (June 2020), among 1,149 disadvantaged children and adolescents from rural China ( Mage = 11.86, SD =1.6, age range = 9 to 16 years; 62% males). Findings observed increases in problem behaviors during the pandemic in comparison to children and adolescents’ pre-pandemic behaviors. Risk and protective factors were associated with changes in these problem behaviors. Specifically, prior adverse experiences were linked to more non-suicidal self-injury behaviors and greater smartphone addiction before the pandemic; children with more exposure to childhood adversities experienced more excessive hours of screen time before the pandemic but fewer increases in screen time amid the pandemic. More pandemic-related stress experiences were associated with behavioral health risk (i.e., more increases in non-suicidal self-injury behaviors and smartphone addiction). For protective factors, family support was associated with fewer increases in non-suicidal self-injury behaviors during the pandemic. Older (relative to younger) children had fewer increases in non-suicidal self-injury behaviors but more increases in excessive screen time amid the pandemic. This study extends the literature by illuminating behavioral changes under pandemic conditions, and contributes uniquely to developmental research more broadly by highlighting risk and protective factors associated with changes in problem behaviors.

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confidence: 83%

Section: Factors Associated With Behavioral Outcomes During the Covid...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Protective and risk factors associated with problem behaviors among disadvantaged children and adolescents in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Sun,

Nuttall

et al. 2023

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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“…Zhang et al (2022) showed that 41.9% of hospital pharmacists had mild to severe anxiety and depressive symptoms, and 29.4% had mild to severe anxiety and depressive symptoms. Ye et al (2022) found that COVID-19-related stressful experiences were significantly associated with PTSD symptoms, where perceived control over the future and empathy significantly moderated the relationship. Ying et al (2023) explored people's appreciation of three types of internet memes about the COVID-19 pandemic that conveyed feelings of humor, encouragement, and agreement.…”

Section: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Individual Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…The study by Kulesza et al (2022) used an online quasi-experimental and cohort approach. Four of the articles employed cross-sectional designs (Tan et al, 2023; Fernández et al, 2023; Yang et al, 2023; Zhang et al, 2022), while four other studies used a longitudinal design with 2-wave data (Chen et al, 2022; Wei et al, 2022; Ye et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The theoretical background of this collection involves a variety of theories and models. For example, in studies involving mental health, Ye et al (2022) cited the conservation of resources (COR) theory (Hobfoll, 2001). Wei et al (2022) examined post-traumatic stress symptoms from the transactional theory of stress and coping (Lazarus & Folkman, 1987).…”

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Challenges of the normalization and resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic on public mentality

Gan,

2023

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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Testing the “holy grail” of industrial psychology as a non-recursive bow pattern model in higher education using the PLSe2 method

Ghasemy

Gaskin

Elwood

2023

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PurposeThe direction of causality between job satisfaction and job performance (known as the holy grail of industrial psychologists) is undetermined and related research findings in different organizational contexts are mixed. Based on the ample literature, mainly from Western countries, on the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance, a non-recursive bow pattern model was utilized to investigate the direct relationship between these two variables in an Asia–Pacific higher education system.Design/methodology/approachThis study is quantitative in approach and survey in design. Additionally, to meet the statistical requirements of non-recursive bow pattern analysis, the authors added welfare as a theory-driven instrumental variable to introduce exogenous variability. Using the efficient partial least squares (PLSe2) estimator, the authors fitted the model to the data collected from 2008 academics affiliated with Malaysian public universities and polytechnics.FindingsThe results showed that while job satisfaction is considerably influenced by welfare, it is not a significant predictor of job performance directly. In addition, a meaningful positive correlation between the disturbance terms of job satisfaction and job performance was observed, suggesting the existence of other factors that could increase both job satisfaction and job performance. The findings' theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and a list of theory-driven evidenced-based policies in this regard is provided.Originality/valueThis is the first study to test a non-recursive bow pattern model and examine the holy grail of industrial psychology based on the PLSe2 methodology, as a parametric approach to partial least squares (PLS), in a higher education context. This study also provides higher education researchers with the advantages of the PLSe2 method, especially in causal-predictive modeling, in the context of applied higher education research.

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COVID-19-related stressful experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among college students in China: A moderated mediation model of perceived control over the future and empathy

Cited by 4 publications

References 65 publications

Protective and risk factors associated with problem behaviors among disadvantaged children and adolescents in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic

Protective and risk factors associated with problem behaviors among disadvantaged children and adolescents in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic

Challenges of the normalization and resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic on public mentality

Testing the “holy grail” of industrial psychology as a non-recursive bow pattern model in higher education using the PLSe2 method

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