The relationship between COVID-19 stress and test anxiety in art students: the chain mediating roles of intolerance of uncertainty and sleep quality

The global spread of COVID-19 has brought immense physiological and psychological distress to students, such as test anxiety and poor sleep quality. This study aims to explore the relationship between COVID-19 stress and test anxiety and the mediating roles of intolerance of uncertainty and sleep qu...

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Published in:BMC public health 2024-04, Vol.24 (1), p.1163-11, Article 1163
Main Authors: Liu, Ruiying, Qiu, Qing, Ye, Baojuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Analysis
Anxiety
Art students
Care and treatment
China
China - epidemiology
Colleges & universities
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - psychology
COVID-19 stress
Culture
Diagnosis
Distance learning
Emotions
Entrance examinations
Epidemics
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Influence
Intolerance
Intolerance of uncertainty
Male
Mediation
Mental health
Online instruction
Pandemics
Physiological aspects
Physiology
Psychological aspects
Psychological stress
SAT assessment
Secondary schools
Sleep
Sleep Quality
Social aspects
Stress
Stress (Psychology)
Stress response
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Student athletes
Students
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
Teenagers
Test anxiety
Test Anxiety - epidemiology
Test Anxiety - psychology
Uncertainty
Worry
Young Adult
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Summary:The global spread of COVID-19 has brought immense physiological and psychological distress to students, such as test anxiety and poor sleep quality. This study aims to explore the relationship between COVID-19 stress and test anxiety and the mediating roles of intolerance of uncertainty and sleep quality between them. A study was conducted in China during the late stage of the pandemic. A total of 936 Chinese art students (age M = 18.51, SD = 2.11, 46.6% female) completed the Coronavirus Stress Measure (CSM), the 12-item Intolerance of Uncertainty (IUS-12), the Brief Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (B-PSQI), and the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI). A chain mediation model analysis was conducted to examine the mediating effects of intolerance of uncertainty and sleep quality on the association with COVID-19 stress and test anxiety. COVID-19 stress was positively associated with test anxiety (β = 0.50, p 
ISSN:1471-2458
1471-2458
DOI:10.1186/s12889-024-18684-7