Subjective wellbeing and psychological symptoms of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a structured telephone interview in a large sample of university students

Baetens, Imke; Vanderfaeillie, Johan; Soyez, Veerle; Vantilborgh, Tim; Meersschaut, Joyce Van Den; Schotte, Christiaan; Theuns, Peter

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.889503

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“…We discovered notable differences in Chinese university students' love forgiveness, interpersonal relationships, and subjective wellbeing between 2016 and 2023, the first hypothesis was valid. At first, compared with the period before the epidemic, undergraduates' subjective well-being decreased significantly after the epidemic, which corresponds with the findings in Baetens et al (2022) and Chen and Ye (2023). Krautter et al (2022) found that during the epidemic, the subjective well-being of college students obviously decreased.…”

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“…According to , undergraduates' subjective well-being in college during the epidemic period was at an above average level, which is consistent with the study results before the epidemic period. However, the study of Baetens et al (2022) shows the pandemic does adversely affect undergraduates' subjective well-being in college. Chen and Ye (2023) found that compared with the period before the epidemic, undergraduates' subjective well-being in college had decreased significantly during the COVID-19.…”

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A comparative study of subjective well-being, interpersonal relationship and love forgiveness among Chinese college students before and after the COVID-19 epidemic

2023

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During the period that COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, Chinese universities have adopted a new teaching method combining online and offline and banned students from entering and leaving campus at will in line with the epidemic prevention policy. As a result, college students’ learning and life styles have been greatly changed. In order to explore how the epidemic and specific prevention policies have influenced the psychology and behavior of Chinese college students, this study used three questionnaires of college students’ subjective well-being, interpersonal relationship and love forgiveness to collect the data after the epidemic and compared with the data of college students before the epidemic. The result showed that before and after the epidemic, college students had obvious changes in their level of interpersonal relationship, subjective well-being and love forgiveness. Relationships among the three variables had changed. Meanwhile, the demographic variables of college students had certain changes in the three questionnaires. College students with and without romantic experience also had significant differences in the three questionnaires. It can be seen that the epidemic and specific prevention policies have a certain impact on the physical and mental health of college students, and there is also a gap in the forgiveness level of college students with and without romantic experience. These findings remind relevant departments that it should give greater consideration to the physical and mental health of college students, provide some references for dealing with new outbreaks and formulating the epidemic prevention policies subsequently, and suggest psychological counselors to change the way of dealing with the intimate relationship of college students.

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A comparative study of subjective well-being, interpersonal relationship and love forgiveness among Chinese college students before and after the COVID-19 epidemic

2023

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“…One study 15 from the SIGMA cohort reported a decrease and stabilization in psychopathological symptoms, measured with the Brief Symptom Inventory, and compared incidences in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Another Belgian study 16 with 7000 university students reported similar trends: Based on structured interviews based on the Kessler Psychological Distress scale (K6), the results show no significant increase in psychopathological symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic. These Belgian findings are not in line with other international studies and meta-analyses, where an increase in psychopathological symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic is seen in adolescent samples.…”

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of non-suicidal self-injury; a comparison between Iran and Belgium

Vatandoost,

Baetens,

Van Den Meersschaut

et al. 2023

Clinical Medicine Insights: Psychiatry

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Introduction The outbreak of COVID-19 has heightened mental health challenges among adolescents worldwide, while also hindering the development of effective emotion regulation strategies. Nevertheless, there exists a pertinent requirement to further investigate the psychological ramifications of COVID-19 on adolescents, as well as to discern disparities in these impacts across various nations. In order to address this gap in research, this study compares the prevalence of NSSI (characterized by purposefully injuring one's own body tissues without suicidal intention or engaging in behaviors that are not socially approved or sanctioned.), emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology (internalization and externalization) among Belgian and Iranian adolescents pre- and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method Adolescents between the ages of 13-21 from Iran and Belgium participated in a two-wave longitudinal design. In Iran, the sample consisted of 117 adolescents in wave 1 (April 2019) and 142 adolescents in wave 2 (Nov 2020). The Belgian sample consisted of 376 participants in wave 1 and 356 adolescents in wave 2. NSSI was assessed using the Self-Harm Inventory (SHI). Emotion Regulation was examined via the Emotion Regulation Inventory (ERI). The S trengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Youth (SDQ) was used to assess psychological symptoms. Result Across the whole sample, lifetime NSSI prevalence was 35% in the first wave and 43.8% in the second wave. Longitudinal analysis across waves and counties did not show an increase in the prevalence of NSSI but did find that emotion dysregulation and internalizing symptoms are important risk factors for NSSI across countries. Emotional suppression and emotional dysregulation were the most prevalent emotion regulation strategies in Iran, whereas emotional integration was most prevalent in the Belgian sample. Conclusion Our study highlights cultural differences on the impact of COVID-19 on adolescent mental health. But it also indicates the importance of certain universal risk factors, for example, emotional dysregulation. These findings can inform developers to tailor programs for (early) intervention culturally.

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“…Because of COVID‐19 the literature has revealed increased mental disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, and loneliness) and serious consequences on the SWB of students (Besser et al, 2020; Huang & Zhang, 2021). In particular, students characterized by a lack of experience, uncertainty, and immature social networks seem more vulnerable to the threats of COVID‐19, closure of the campus, the shift from in‐person to online teaching, and limitations of interactions and social networks (Baetens et al, 2022; Cao et al, 2020).…”

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The role of educational support in the development of subjective well‐being in Finnish general upper secondary education

Holopainen

Waltzer

Hoang

et al. 2023

Psychology in the Schools

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This study examines how students' support, self‐esteem, and schoolwork difficulties are related to the development of students' subjective well‐being (SWB), which consists of social relations and self‐fulfillment. The participants (n = 326, aged 16 years) were followed for the first 2 years of general upper secondary education in Finnish schools. The first‐year results in the path model showed that students who received more support or had better self‐esteem were more likely to have better SWB, but students with schoolwork difficulties had lower SWB. The results also indicated that SWB in the second year was strongly predicted by SWB in the first year. All autoregressive effects of the variables from the first to second year were significant, but schoolwork difficulties had the highest stability, and support had the lowest stability. Moreover, the mediation effects between the variables from the first to second year suggested that students who had low SWB in the first year experienced more schoolwork difficulties in the second year. In practice, it was an important finding that, in both years, the school staff members could positively impact students' SWB through support, even though the received support was insufficient to reduce the negative effect of schoolwork difficulties on SWB.

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Subjective wellbeing and psychological symptoms of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a structured telephone interview in a large sample of university students

Cited by 5 publications

References 64 publications

A comparative study of subjective well-being, interpersonal relationship and love forgiveness among Chinese college students before and after the COVID-19 epidemic

A comparative study of subjective well-being, interpersonal relationship and love forgiveness among Chinese college students before and after the COVID-19 epidemic

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of non-suicidal self-injury; a comparison between Iran and Belgium

The role of educational support in the development of subjective well‐being in Finnish general upper secondary education

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