How Course Support and Academic Support Impact on Chinese Graduate Students during the COVID-19: The Multiple Mediating Roles of Thesis Writing and Anxiety

• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010265
• Publication Date: 2021-12-28T06:18:15Z
• Authors: Zhengyan Liang; Qing Zeng; Minqiang Zhang; Huijun Luo; Sijuan Huang; Jia Li; Da Yi
• Keywords: Graduate students; Depression

Because of the impact COVID-19 pandemic, learning style graduate students has changed considerably, making them more susceptible to psychological problems. This study aimed explore mediating roles thesis writing and anxiety between course support (including course-arrangement, course-assessment, course-learning), academic exchange with colleges, tutors schoolmates) depression. There were 3137 investigated by self-developed Graduate Students' Academic Affected Questionnaire, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale Depression Scale. The results showed that (1) 82% reported their support, affected varying degrees; (2) correlated writing, depression (p < 0.001); (3) mediation model fitted well, effect was significant (β = 0.086, SE 0.02, p 0.001), serial multiple effects 0.008, 0.013) also found be 0.014, 0.006, 0.014).