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ArticleJournal of affective disorders2022

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

Constantinos M Kokkinos, Costas N Tsouloupas, Ioanna Voulgaridou

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Article in Journal of affective disorders, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Constantinos M KokkinosDepartment of Primary Education, School of Education Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. Electronic address: kkokkino@eled.duth.gr.
Costas N TsouloupasDepartment of Life and Health Science, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
Ioanna VoulgaridouDepartment of Primary Education, School of Education Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood, School of Education Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, Greece.
Democritus University of Thrace · GRUniversity of Nicosia · CY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe 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

methodsA 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.

resultsA 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.

conclusionsThe 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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COVID-19AdultCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMental HealthPandemicsPersonal SatisfactionSARS-CoV-2StudentsUniversitiesCOVID-19 impactMediationMental healthSatisfaction with lifeUniversity studentsWell-being

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PMID34979179
PMCPMC8733280
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