TY  - EJOU
AU  - Yang, Jiaqi 
AU  - Zhang, Yanwen 
AU  - Li, Peng 
AU  - Zhang, Huan 
AU  - Liu, Tour 

TI  - College Students’ Academic Stressors on Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison between Graduating Students and Non-Graduating Students
T2  - International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

PY  - 2022
VL  - 24
IS  - 4
SN  - 2049-8543

AB  - The study aimed to investigate the influence of academic stressors on mental health and the mediating effect of social support and self-identity among college students and further studied the difference between the graduating students and non-graduating students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Recruiting 900 college students as subjects, used the college students’ academic stressors questionnaire, social support questionnaire, self-identity scale and depression anxiety stress scales (DASS-21). The results showed that: (1) The college students’ academic stressor positively predicted mental health; (2) Social support and self-identity mediated the relationship; (3) The model also held when academic stressors was replaced by work stressor, but there were differences between the graduating and non-graduating students; (4) The direct effect work stressor on mental health in the graduating group was not significant; (5) The non-graduating students’ work stressor could not predict mental health through social support.
KW  - COVID-19; work stressor; mental health; social support; self-identity

DO  - 10.32604/ijmhp.2022.019406