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ArticleDiscover mental health2026

Interplay of academic stress, digital fatigue, and loneliness in predicting university students' mental health in the post-COVID era.

Amjad Islam Amjad, Saira, Saba Firdos, Priyadarshini Muthukrishnan, Mohamad Ahmad Saleem Khasawneh, Thabet Bin Saeed Al-Kahlan

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Amjad Islam AmjadDepartment of Education, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan. a.amjad@faculty.unicaf.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4250-7526
SairaDepartment of Education, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-1781-148X
Saba FirdosDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7444-606X
Priyadarshini MuthukrishnanFaculty of Education and Liberal Arts, INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1545-0963
Mohamad Ahmad Saleem KhasawnehSpecial Education Department, King Khalid University, 61421, Abha, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1390-3765
Thabet Bin Saeed Al-KahlanFaculty of Education, Department of Curricula and Teaching Methods, King Khalid University, 61421, Abha, Saudi Arabia.

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Deanship of Scientific Research, King Khalid University RGP 2/412/46
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic created major challenges to students' mental health. Research that university students continue to experience mental health challenges due to the changes in higher education and the increased technology integration in the post-COVID-19 era. The objective of this study was to examine association between academic stress related to technology integration and students' mental health problems (MHPs), with digital fatigue as a mediating variable and loneliness as a moderating variable. The study's research design was a cross-sectional survey. This study was guided by Job-Demands Resources (JD-R) Theory. The data were collected online from 388 university students through the post-COVID-19 University Students' Well-being Scale (PC-USWS). Academic stress was significantly associated with mental health problems (β = .639, SE = .04, 95% CI [.566, .713], t = 17.12, p < .001, R

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Academic stressDigital fatigueLonelinessMental healthPost-COVID eraPsychological harm

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