Effects of Coronavirus-19 Induced Loneliness on Mental Health: Sleep Quality and Intolerance for Uncertainty as Mediators

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.738003
• Publication Date: 2021-09-21T06:39:00Z
• Authors: Simeng Gu; Zhengming He; Lianwang Sun; Yao Jiang; Minghong Xu; Guangkui Feng; Xianjun Ma; Fushun Wang; Jason H. Huang
• Keywords: Depression; Sleep

Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate effects loneliness on individual's mental health and mediating intolerance uncertainty sleep quality in post Coronavirus-19 period, especially for young people. Methods: questionnaires used this include UCLA scale (UCLA-3), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), (IU) Chinese version DASS-21. A total number 289 subjects were recruited study, which includes 209 females (72.3%), 80 males (27.7%); 212 students (73.4%), 77 working staffs (26.6%). Results: results showed that: (1) people have high levels loneliness, anxiety, depression stress, poor quality; (2) effect relationship significant (effect size = 0.178, 95% CI confidence interval: [0.115, 0.241]), between 0.127, [0.017, 0.239]). Conclusion: Loneliness invokes a stronger self-concerned inadaptability threat response may lead more diseases through serious insomnia.