Background

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused extremely many serious consequences for the country and the world. In fact, it has seriously affected people's mental health. The purpose of this study is to understand the psychological stress among college students in different stages of epidemics in hard-hit areas such as Hubei. Moreover, to highlight the factors that influencing, their psychological conditions with the emphasis of further corresponding suggestions.

Methods

This study includes self-designed questionnaires in order to assess and analyze the psychological state of over 17,000 college students during the outbreak period in January and home quarantine in February. The questionnaire contains three aspects and six dimensions: pressure responses: stress susceptibility (SS), stress adjustment (SA), risk cognition: cognition of danger (CD), cognition of illness (CI) and stress reactions: emotional responses (ER), somatic responses (SR). This survey was done by an online questionnaire (www.wjx.cn) to investigate the psychological stress information of college students, and analyzed the data by SPSS 22.0 for Windows.

Results

Regarding the stress susceptibility, participants were more likely stressed in February than in January. Regarding the stress adjustment, the number of participants requiring pressure regulation or release in the February survey was significantly lower than that the effective in the January survey. The mean of the cognition of danger reduced significantly in February than in January, in other words, participants were highly worried about the epidemic in January than in February. Regarding the cognition of illness, participants in January had a more pessimistic attitude towards the epidemic than those in February. The emotional responses of the participants in February were more severe than those in January, while the somatic responses reduced significantly in February compared with January. Furthermore, females have stronger stress reactions than males. However, the SR doesn’t have significant differences between females and males.

Conclusion

After two surveys in January and February, it was found that the psychological stress of college students in Hubei was significantly different at different stages of the epidemic, where the epidemic developed, the psychological stress of college students become more severe. The psychological stress of the college students in Hubei Province, as a severely affected area, should be paid more attention.

中文翻译：

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COVID-19疫情不同阶段重灾区大学生的心理压力

背景

COVID-19的爆发给国家和世界造成了极其严重的后果。事实上，它已经严重影响了人们的心理健康。本研究旨在了解湖北等重灾区大学生在疫情不同阶段的心理压力。此外，突出影响因素，他们的心理状况与重点进一步相应的建议。

方法

该研究包括自行设计的问卷，以评估和分析 17,000 多名大学生在 1 月份疫情爆发期间和 2 月份居家隔离期间的心理状态。问卷包含三个方面六个维度：压力反应：压力敏感性（SS）、压力调节（SA）、风险认知：危险认知（CD）、疾病认知（CI）和压力反应：情绪反应（ER），躯体反应 (SR)。本次调查采用在线问卷（www.wjx.cn）的方式调查大学生的心理压力信息，采用SPSS 22.0 for Windows对数据进行分析。

结果

关于压力敏感性，参与者在 2 月比 1 月更有可能感到压力。在压力调节方面，2月调查中需要调节或释放压力的人数明显低于1月调查有效人数。2月份危险认知的均值较1月份显着降低，即1月份与2月份相比，参与者对疫情的担忧程度更高。在对疾病的认知上，1月份的参与者对疫情的态度较2月份的更为悲观。2月份参与者的情绪反应比1月份严重，而2月份的躯体反应较1月份明显下降。此外，女性比男性有更强的应激反应。但是，SR 在女性和男性之间没有显着差异。

结论

经过1月和2月的两次调查发现，湖北省大学生的心理压力在疫情的不同阶段存在明显差异，疫情发展到哪里，大学生的心理压力就越大。湖北省作为重灾区，大学生的心理压力更应引起重视。