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The effects of perceived psychological, educational, and financial impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Greek university students’ satisfaction with life through Mental Health

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to provide an operating mechanism for understanding the effects of COVID-19′s on satisfaction with life, subject to students’ general mental health METHODS: A sample of 1653 Greek speaking university students (72.4% females, 65.3% undergraduate, M age=26.1)...

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Autores principales: Kokkinos, Constantinos M., Tsouloupas, Costas N., Voulgaridou, Ioanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8733280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34979179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.12.114
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Tsouloupas, Costas N.
Voulgaridou, Ioanna
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description BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to provide an operating mechanism for understanding the effects of COVID-19′s on satisfaction with life, subject to students’ general mental health METHODS: A sample of 1653 Greek speaking university students (72.4% females, 65.3% undergraduate, M age=26.1) completed an online survey including measures for perceived psychological, academic, and financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, general mental health and satisfaction with life. RESULTS: A mediation model was tested to illuminate these relationships by considering students’ general mental health as a mediator. Findings demonstrated that there were significant direct effects of perceived COVID-19 impact on participants’ financial status on satisfaction with life and indirect effects of perceived COVID-19 impact on participants’ financial status and academic performance respectively on satisfaction with life through general mental health. LIMITATIONS: The study's cross-sectional design, self-report data and snowball sampling. CONCLUSIONS: The findings add to our understanding of the relationship between perceived COVID-19 impact and life satisfaction among university students, and they shed light on the critical role of general mental health in mediating the relationship. Targeting the factors that influence general mental health can help to mitigate potential problems while also finding ways to improve mental health and well-being.
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spelling pubmed-87332802022-01-06 The effects of perceived psychological, educational, and financial impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Greek university students’ satisfaction with life through Mental Health Kokkinos, Constantinos M. Tsouloupas, Costas N. Voulgaridou, Ioanna J Affect Disord Article BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to provide an operating mechanism for understanding the effects of COVID-19′s on satisfaction with life, subject to students’ general mental health METHODS: A sample of 1653 Greek speaking university students (72.4% females, 65.3% undergraduate, M age=26.1) completed an online survey including measures for perceived psychological, academic, and financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, general mental health and satisfaction with life. RESULTS: A mediation model was tested to illuminate these relationships by considering students’ general mental health as a mediator. Findings demonstrated that there were significant direct effects of perceived COVID-19 impact on participants’ financial status on satisfaction with life and indirect effects of perceived COVID-19 impact on participants’ financial status and academic performance respectively on satisfaction with life through general mental health. LIMITATIONS: The study's cross-sectional design, self-report data and snowball sampling. CONCLUSIONS: The findings add to our understanding of the relationship between perceived COVID-19 impact and life satisfaction among university students, and they shed light on the critical role of general mental health in mediating the relationship. Targeting the factors that influence general mental health can help to mitigate potential problems while also finding ways to improve mental health and well-being. Elsevier B.V. 2022-03-01 2022-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8733280/ /pubmed/34979179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.12.114 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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