The chain mediating roles of anxiety and depression in the relationship between the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and procrastination in adolescents: a longitudinal study

The relationship between the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is a traumatic event for adolescents, and procrastination is not clear. Mental health may play an important role in this relationship; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. This study aimed to construct cha...

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Published in:BMC public health 2023-11, Vol.23 (1), p.2277-2277, Article 2277
Main Authors: Qiao, Zhengxue, Wu, Yongmei, Xie, Yunjia, Qiu, Xiaohui, Chen, Lu, Yang, Jiarun, Pan, Hui, Gu, Simeng, Yang, Xiuxian, Hu, Xiaomeng, Wei, Ping, Zhao, Jinxin, Qu, Yuanpeng, Zhou, Jiawei, Bu, Tianyi, Yang, Yanjie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescents
Anxiety
Anxiety - epidemiology
Anxiety in teenagers
Anxiety in youth
Chains
China
China - epidemiology
Coronaviruses
Correlation analysis
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Demographic aspects
Depression
Depression - epidemiology
Depression in adolescence
Emotions
Epidemics
Female
Humans
Influence
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Mental depression
Pandemics
Procrastination
Psychological aspects
Schools
Signs and symptoms
Structural equation modelling
Teenagers
Viral diseases
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Summary:The relationship between the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is a traumatic event for adolescents, and procrastination is not clear. Mental health may play an important role in this relationship; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. This study aimed to construct chain mediation models to examine whether anxiety and depression symptoms mediate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on procrastination in adolescents. A convenience sample of 12 middle and high schools in Harbin, China, with four follow-up online surveys was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 4,156 Chinese adolescents were enrolled in this study, of whom ages 11-18 (Mean = 13.55; SD = 1.18), 50.75% were male, and 93.24% were middle school students. Descriptive demographic analysis and Pearson's correlation analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (T1), anxiety(T2), depression (T3), and procrastination (T4) were performed in SPSS 22.0. Chain mediation analysis performed with Mplus 8.3. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, anxiety symptoms, depression symptoms, and procrastination were positively correlated (P 
ISSN:1471-2458
1471-2458
DOI:10.1186/s12889-023-16605-8