ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Influence of anxiety on university students' academic involution behavior during COVID-19 pandemic: Mediating effect of cognitive closure needs.
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- Teacher emotional support and student well-being in higher education: a sequential motivational process via need satisfaction and autonomous motivation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Academic involution behavior, perceived academic involution climate, and English learning intention among college students: the indirect role of psychological distress.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Effect of Upward Social Comparison on Academic Involution Among College Students: Serial Mediating Effects of Self-Esteem and Perceived Stress.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Academic Delay of Gratification and Depressive Symptoms Among College Students: Exploring the Roles of Academic Involution and Academic Resilience.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Development and validation of academic involution scale for college students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association between active/passive Involution and lying flat among college students: the mediation role of perceived stress and anxiety.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Influence of academic involution atmosphere on college students' stress response: the chain mediating effect of relative deprivation and academic involution.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Effect of Perceived Environmental Uncertainty on University Students' Anxiety, Academic Engagement, and Prosocial Behavior.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the academic involution scale for college students in China: An application of Rasch analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant negative effect on university students' mental health worldwide. The pandemic has resulted in individuals experiencing increased levels of anxiety and stress as well as intensified concerns about the future due to a rise in uncertainty. To eliminate the anxiety and stress caused by uncertainty, individuals who have high cognitive closure needs are strongly motivated to achieve certainty and seek answers, even if the decisions they make in the process are inappropriate or even irrational. This study attempts to analyze the influence of anxiety and stress on university students' academic involution behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic through the mediating effect of the need for cognitive closure. Analyzing the survey data collected from 402 university students from 3 different universities through the mediating effect model and path analysis with latent variable (PA-LV), our results indicate that: (1) The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the levels of anxiety and stress experienced by university students. The path coefficient of the perceived risk of contracting COVID-19 to perceived emotions (including anxiety and stress) was 0.352 (
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