Colleges and universities have increasingly worried in recent decades about college students’ well-being, with the COVID-19 pandemic aggravating these concerns. Our study examines changes to undergraduate emotional sentiments and psychological well-being from before to after the onset of the pandemic. In addition, we explore whether certain risk factors (i.e., prior mental health impairments, trait emotional stability) and protective factors (i.e., subjective socioeconomic status, parental education, household resources) predicted students’ emotions and their intraindividual changes due to the pandemic onset. We compared experience sampling method data from 120 students from before and after the pandemic onset, examining intraindividual trajectories. There was only little change in students’ emotions. Prior mental health impairment and trait emotional stability predicted students’ emotions, averaged across time points, but not emotion changes. Few associations with emotions were found for subjective socioeconomic status and parental education, but study-related household resources predicted levels and changes in emotions.

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COVID-19大流行期间大学生心理健康的风险和保护因素：情绪稳定性、心理健康和家庭资源

近几十年来，高校越来越担心大学生的福祉，而 COVID-19 大流行加剧了这些担忧。我们的研究考察了大流行爆发前后大学生情绪情绪和心理健康的变化。此外，我们探讨了某些风险因素（即先前的心理健康障碍、特质情绪稳定性）和保护因素（即主观社会经济地位、父母教育、家庭资源）是否可以预测学生的情绪及其因大流行而导致的个体内部变化. 我们比较了大流行前后 120 名学生的经验抽样方法数据，检查了个人轨迹。学生的情绪变化不大。先前的心理健康障碍和特质情绪稳定性可以预测学生的情绪，跨时间点平均，但不能预测情绪变化。主观社会经济地位和父母教育与情绪几乎没有关联，但研究相关的家庭资源预测情绪的水平和变化。