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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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Rose, Amanda J.; Campione-Barr, Nicole; Killoren, Sarah E.; Rote, Wendy M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Adolescents' interactions with friends were severely disrupted during stay-at-home orders associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study (N = 144, 49% female, 80% European American) considered adolescents' perceptions of this disruption and the implications of the disruption for their emotional adjustment. Adolescents reported that not…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents, Interaction
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Seth 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
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Levkovich, Inbar; Shinan-Altman, Shiri; Pressley, Tim – Teacher Educator, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed significant demands on teachers. After the state of emergency was lifted, schools reopened and teachers began teaching face-to-face classes while maintaining safety precautions. Insufficient empirical research has examined the situation of teachers since the schools reopened. This study aimed to assess the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping
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Ren, Lijie; Han, Xianguo; Li, Dan; Hu, Fangmin; Mo, Bibo; Liu, Junsheng – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Objective: This study aims to explore the moderating role of affinity for aloneness and gender in the relationship between loneliness and depression. Methods: The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) loneliness scale, the Loneliness and Aloneness Scale for Children and Adolescents (LACA), and the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Depression (Psychology), Gender Differences, Social Isolation
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Crystian Moraes Silva Gomes; Arthur Cassa Macedo; Evelyn Brunorio Salamão; Kellen Valladão Schiavo; Lilian Gazzoli Zanotelli – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Studies on the COVID-19 pandemic highlight detrimental effects of social distancing on mental health. These effects were also observed among caregivers of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), who undergo particular challenges in this context. This study aimed to identify the coping strategies adopted by caregivers of…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Coping, Caregivers, Intellectual Disability
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Christopher T. Barry; Kelli Moran-Miller; Hannah F. Levy; Tiffany Gray – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The present study investigated the association between social media engagement and factors related to well-being (e.g., depression, anxiety, sleep, loneliness, self-esteem). Participants: A sample of 1120 college student-athletes (338 males, 777 females, 5 identified as non-binary) from nine universities participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Student Attitudes, Well Being, Opportunities
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Melcher, Jennifer; Lavoie, Joel; Hays, Ryan; D'Mello, Ryan; Rauseo-Ricupero, Natali; Camacho, Erica; Rodriguez-Villa, Elena; Wisniewski, Hannah; Lagan, Sarah; Vaidyam, Aditya; Torous, John – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: This study assessed the feasibility of capturing smartphone based digital phenotyping data in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of understanding how digital biomarkers of behavior correlate with mental health. Participants: Participants were 100 students enrolled in 4-year universities. Methods: Each…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, College Students, COVID-19
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Ren, Lijie; Mo, Bibo; Liu, Junsheng; Li, Dan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
This article aims to explore the possible causal relationship between loneliness and depression in college students. Two hundred and fifty-nine college students had been investigated four times in 2 years with UCLA and CES-D, and cross-lagged regression analysis was used. (1) there was a significant positive correlation between loneliness and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Depression (Psychology), Attribution Theory, Prediction
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Pederson, Cathy L.; Gorman-Ezell, Kathleen; Hochstetler Mayer, Greta; Brookings, Jeffrey B. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
The Suicide Screening Tool for Chronic Illness assesses suicide risk for persons with chronic, "invisible" illnesses. From an initial pool of 31 items, internal consistency, Rasch, and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses produced a 14-item scale that is unidimensional, internally consistent, and correlated with measures of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Screening Tests, At Risk Persons
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Denault, Anne-Sophie; Poulin, François – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
To examine whether trajectories of participation in organized activities during the high school years and beyond (from ages 14 to 20) predicted outcomes at age 21 (externalizing problems, internalizing problems, civic engagement, number of years of education, and perception of physical health), 354 youths (60% girls) were surveyed annually over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Participation
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Jones, Emily J.; Schreier, Hannah M. C. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To examine prospective associations between physical and mental self-rated health (SRH), college generation status and college adjustment among first-year college students. Participants and methods: Eighty-seven first-year college students (41 first-generation college students) reported their SRH when starting college, and then,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Physical Health
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