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Patricia Frazier1, Yuchen Liu1, Alexa Asplund2
1Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Objective:
To assess mental health in US undergraduates during COVID-19; to identify key pandemic-related stressors, perceived control, and coping and their associations with mental health.
Participants:
Data collected from a sample of undergraduates in April 2020 (N = 312) were compared to data collected in Spring 2017 (N = 362).
Methods:
Online measures of depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms and perceived control and coping (both samples); pandemic-related stressors and perceived benefits (April 2020).
Results:
Depression and stress symptoms were higher in April 2020 than in 2017. Most students reported perceiving at least some pandemic-related benefits. Top-rated stressors involved missing seeing friends and school-related stressors. Perceived control and approach coping were lower during the pandemic but related to better mental health; avoidant coping was higher during the pandemic and related to poorer mental health.
Conclusions:
Findings can inform campuses regarding how to improve student mental health during COVID and beyond.
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