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Direct linkSeth J. Schwartz; Beyhan Ertanir; Audrey Harkness; Byron L. Zamboanga; Melissa L. Bessaha; John B. Bartholomew; Alan Meca; Minas Michikyan; Maria Duque; Pablo Montero-Zamora; Claudia López-Madrigal; Linda G. Castillo; Miguel Ángel Cano; Kaveri Subrahmanyam; Brandy Piña-Watson; Pamela Regan; Lindsay S. Ham; Marissa K. Hanson; Charles R. Martinez Jr. – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined the role of personal identity vis-à-vis COVID-related outcomes among college students from seven U.S. campuses during spring/summer 2021. Participants: The present sample consisted of 1,688 students (74.5% female, age range 18-29). The sample was ethnically diverse, and 57.3% were first-generation students. Procedures:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Self Concept
Genta Kulari – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyse the mediating effect of friends and family as sources of perceived social support in the relationship between loneliness and depressive symptoms. Design/methodology/approach: Survey data sample consisted of 733 university students from January to May 2023. Participants completed the UCLA loneliness…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Peer Relationship, Family Relationship, Psychological Patterns
Brian Clarke; Michael Hartley – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2025
The purpose of this article is to report the results of a study exploring the mediation effects of self-compassion and mindfulness on the relationship between mental distress and resilience among a national sample of college students (N = 260). The results of the structural equation modeling (SEM) serial mediation analysis revealed that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Altruism, Well Being, Resilience (Psychology)
Allyson S. Graf; Callie N. Bolling – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Speculation about the effects of COVID-19, especially on youth social development, has been mixed. This study aimed to examine change in loneliness and belongingness into the first month of stay-at-home orders (January through April 2020). Participants: College students (N = 73, mean age = 19.03 years, SD = 1.44 years) enrolled in a…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Sense of Community, COVID-19
Download full textBrown-Smythe, Claudette; Sultana, Shirin – Professional Counselor, 2023
We examined the extent to which anxious attachment and avoidant attachment predicted loneliness and social self-efficacy among 863 college students. Further, we investigated whether social self-efficacy mediated the relationships between the two insecure attachment styles and loneliness. Pearson correlations and regression analysis showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Predictor Variables, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior
Martie P. Thompson; Jennifer Schroeder Tyson; Adam Hege; Christopher Seitz – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study's purpose was to determine if COVID-related stress predicted suicide risk among college students and if this risk was attenuated by higher levels of social and psychological resources. Participants: The sample included 65,142 college students who participated in the National College Health Assessment survey in Spring 2021.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Stress Variables, Suicide
Koc, Hayri; Arslan, Coskun – Online Submission, 2022
This study investigated the mediating role of loneliness in the relationship between maladaptive thinking styles and emotional expressivity. Participants were 1042 [776 (%74.5) female and 266 (%25.5) male, range age = 17-28, M age = 20.02, SD age = 1.69] young adults enrolled at university. "Berkeley Expressivity Scale" to determine…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, College Students, Cognitive Style
Genta Kulari – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: The present study aimed to examine the mediation role of loneliness in the relationship between perceived social support and depressive symptoms among university students in Portugal. The study also investigated the moderation role of age on the mediation model. Design/methodology/approach: Survey data sample consisted of 755 participants…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Social Networks, Depression (Psychology), College Students
Ismail Kusci; Ali Öztosun; Nuran Bayram Arli – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2023
This research aims to examine the mediating role of social exclusion in the relationship between a sense of belonging and loneliness in international students. The research sample is composed of international students studying in universities in Türkiye. In the research, in which 284 students voluntarily participated, General Belongingness Scale,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
Akdeniz, Seher; Gültekin Ahçi, Zeynep – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic caused people to suffer from secondary problems such as social isolation and loneliness as well as experiencing anxiety about catching and spreading the virus. Existing research emphasizes the roles of cognitive flexibility and hope for psychological adjustment but the mediating and moderating mechanisms have not…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety, Social Isolation
Mee Young Um; Arati Maleku; Hanna Haran; Youn Kyoung Kim; Mansoo Yu; Sung Seek Moon – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study examined associations among discrimination, mask-wearing behavior, and self-harming thoughts among international students in the United States during COVID-19. Participants: Undergraduate and graduate international students enrolled in universities during the 2020 summer semester participated in the online survey (N = 103).…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Hygiene
Tali Gazit – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to obtain valuable insights into students' engagement and experiences within the virtual learning environment, especially in the context of crises. Among the innumerable challenges people throughout the world faced during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, those of students in institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learner Engagement, COVID-19, Pandemics
Warner W. Myntti; Stacey B. Armstrong – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To assess the influence of specific COVID-19 impacts on college student depression, loneliness, and alcohol and cannabis use, and to investigate if resilience moderates these relationships. Participants: Data were collected from students (N = 1849, 80.9% white, 66.6% female) at a midwestern university during the 2021 winter/spring…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Resilience (Psychology), Depression (Psychology)
Nathaniel Nathaniel Mason – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This research study served to examine casual inferences within the relationships between social connectedness, drinking, resilience, and loneliness for both LGBTQ+ and heterosexual-identifying college students. The literature reviewed identified there is likely a relationship between these constructs whereby social connectedness was expected to…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Drinking, Resilience (Psychology), Social Isolation
Smith, Kevin M.; Reed-Fitzke, Kayla – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To examine the relationships between loneliness and psychosocial supports, emerging adult service utilization, and barriers to utilization. Participants: 18 to 29-year-old students enrolled in a large Midwestern University (n = 292). Methods: Online surveys were administered to all participants involving information on loneliness,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Barriers, Services, College Students
