ArticleFrontiers in public health2026
Living with uncertainty: associations of personal and environmental uncertainty, resilience, and self-efficacy with anxiety symptoms in young adults.
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Background: Anxiety symptoms are highly prevalent among young adults and remain a major public mental health concern, with national data showing a marked increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrary to expectations, anxiety rates did not decline after the pandemic ended. Persistent high anxiety levels may be contextually linked to an accumulation of concurrent global challenges, including climate change and geopolitical conflicts, that have been described as a "polycrisis" and are characterized by pervasive uncertainty. However, this framework was not directly examined in the present study. This study investigated the association between uncertainty, anxiety symptoms, resilience, and self-efficacy among university students. Methods: We used two datasets collected in Switzerland: a repeated cross-sectional pandemic study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2020 to April 2023), and a post-pandemic cross-sectional study conducted in Fall 2023. First, general linear models were used to examine the trend of anxiety from Spring 2020-Fall 2023, combining data from both studies (N Results: A general linear model exhibited significantly better for a quadratic function compared to a linear function, suggesting an increase in anxiety followed by a saturation-plateau post-COVID-19 [β = -0.02, 95% CI (-0.03, -0.01)]. Regression results supported independent relationships [ Conclusion: Our findings highlight that uncertainty may play a role in sustaining high levels of anxiety among university students. Although high self-efficacy and resilience did not modify the relationship between uncertainty and anxiety symptoms, they were independently associated with lower anxiety levels. Addressing both global and specific facets of uncertainty appears to be highly relevant when designing targeted interventions to support mental health in young adults, particularly university students.
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