Little is known about the impacts of covid-19 pandemic on mental health problems among youth population whereas this information is extremely necessary to develop appropriate actions to support these young people overcoming psychological crisis and increasing satisfaction with life during the disease outbreak. This study not only explores the influences of fear and anxiety of covid-19 on life satisfaction, but it also examines the mediating roles of psychological distress and sleep disturbance in this linkage. 1521 students from universities in Vietnam was assessed utilizing the online-based cross-sectional survey. The study revealed that fear and anxiety of covid-19 was strongly related to psychological distress and sleep disturbance and life satisfaction among Vietnamese university students. Also, life satisfaction was found to have a strong and negative association with psychological distress, but without sleep disturbance. Moreover, the findings of the study revealed that fear and anxiety of covid-19 reduced life satisfaction and increased sleep disturbance via psychological distress. This study was expected to contribute to the extant literature by enriching our understanding the serious impacts of covid-19 pandemic on youths' mental health as well as provide some useful references for policy makers to prevent the occurrence of psychological crisis among university students.

人们对 covid-19 大流行对年轻人心理健康问题的影响知之甚少，而这些信息对于制定适当的行动以支持这些年轻人克服心理危机并提高疾病爆发期间的生活满意度极为必要。本研究不仅探讨了 covid-19 的恐惧和焦虑对生活满意度的影响，还考察了心理困扰和睡眠障碍在这种联系中的中介作用。使用基于在线的横断面调查对来自越南大学的 1521 名学生进行了评估。该研究表明，covid-19 的恐惧和焦虑与越南大学生的心理困扰和睡眠障碍以及生活满意度密切相关。还，生活满意度被发现与心理困扰有很强的负相关关系，但没有睡眠障碍。此外，该研究的结果表明，对 covid-19 的恐惧和焦虑会降低生活满意度，并通过心理困扰增加睡眠障碍。本研究有望通过丰富我们对 covid-19 大流行对青少年心理健康的严重影响的理解，为现有文献做出贡献，并为政策制定者预防大学生心理危机的发生提供一些有用的参考。