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Wick, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Autistic postsecondary students reportedly experience significant social anxiety and loneliness, which has become a growing concern for colleges and practitioners alike. The social-emotional experiences of autistic students entering postsecondary education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at 4-year institutions are not…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, STEM Education, Psychological Patterns
Baltaci, Önder – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine how well university students' social anxiety, happiness and loneliness levels explain their levels of social media addiction. The research was designed as a correlational survey model. The research group consisted a total of 312 university students, 165 female (53%) and 147 male (47%), attending at a state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Predictor Variables, Correlation
Flett, Gordon L.; Nepon, Taryn; Goldberg, Joel O.; Rose, Alison L.; Atkey, Sarah K.; Zaki-Azat, Justeena – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2022
Previous work has focused on positive feelings of mattering, which pertain to the human need to feel significant. In the current article, we examine a complementary yet distinct construct involving feelings of not mattering that may arise from being marginalized and experiences that heighten a sense of being insignificant to others. We also…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Test Construction, Well Being, Test Validity
Luo, Xiao; Hu, Chunnan – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
Sleep issues impair students' health and success. This study constructed a sequential mediating model to examine whether attachment anxiety and mobile social media dependence mediated the relationship between loneliness and sleep disturbance. A total of 487 university freshmen (42.09% females, 57.91% males; mean age = 18.19 years) were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Sleep, College Freshmen, Attachment Behavior, Anxiety
Knifsend, Casey A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The transition to university, while a time of growth, can also be difficult for many students, with declines in psychosocial well-being common. Specific stressors can include both those related to academics and those related to life transitions during this time, like moving out or being away from one's family. Understanding the factors that can…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Students, Social Behavior, Psychological Patterns
Marziliano, Allison; Applebaum, Allison; Siess, Samantha; Moyer, Anne – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
There is limited literature on emerging young adult (EYA) care partners, despite a recent rise in interest in this group. The purpose of this study is to compare EYA care partners and their non-care partner peers in the domains of academic achievement and engagement, employment, health-related behaviors and self-care, and mental health and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Young Adults, Peer Relationship, Social Support Groups
Dempsey, Allison G.; Storch, Eric A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
Although the relationship between relational victimization and psychosocial adjustment in adolescence has been established, it is unknown whether it extends into early adulthood. The current retrospective study investigated the relationship between recall of adolescent relational victimization and symptoms of depression, social anxiety, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Social Support Groups, Factor Structure
Yung, Shun Ting; Chen, Yaoyu; Zawadzki, Matthew J. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Changes in surroundings and social relationships may heighten feelings of loneliness, suggesting the need to measure as a state. This study tested whether loneliness fluctuates within and across days and the resultant associations with psychological distress. Further it tested familism as a moderator as endorsing this cultural value may…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Predictor Variables
Akdeniz, Seher; Gültekin Ahçi, Zeynep – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic caused people to suffer from secondary problems such as social isolation and loneliness as well as experiencing anxiety about catching and spreading the virus. Existing research emphasizes the roles of cognitive flexibility and hope for psychological adjustment but the mediating and moderating mechanisms have not…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety, Social Isolation
Brown-Smythe, Claudette; Sultana, Shirin – Professional Counselor, 2023
We examined the extent to which anxious attachment and avoidant attachment predicted loneliness and social self-efficacy among 863 college students. Further, we investigated whether social self-efficacy mediated the relationships between the two insecure attachment styles and loneliness. Pearson correlations and regression analysis showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Predictor Variables, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior
Repo, Juuso; Herkama, Sanna; Yanagida, Takuya; Salmivalli, Christina – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The study investigated a developmentally sensitive group, emerging adults going through a critical post-secondary educational transition in tandem with the first wave of the COVID pandemic in Finland. The participants (n = 330) were surveyed initially during their first year in secondary education, and again during the pandemic, right after their…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adjustment (to Environment), COVID-19, Pandemics
Kingery, Julie Newman; Bodenlos, Jamie S.; Schneider, Travis I.; Peltz, Jack S.; Sindoni, Mara W. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: This study examined rumination as a mediator of the relationship between dispositional mindfulness (DM) and depression, loneliness, and anxiety, while considering gender as a moderator of these mediation models. Participants: Three hundred and nineteen undergraduate students (49.5% female; M=18.90years) participated with data collected…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality, Metacognition, Prediction
Wilson, Laura C.; Liss, Miriam – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2023
Although research has consistently shown that individuals who identify as transgender have increased rates of mental health difficulties compared to their cisgender peers, less is known about the psychological mechanisms that convey this heightened risk. The data analyzed here were collected through the Wake Forest Well Being Assessment, which was…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychological Patterns, Social Bias, LGBTQ People
van Tonder, Johanna Isabella; Jordaan, Jacques; Esterhuyse, Karel – SAGE Open, 2023
Loneliness is a common concern among university students, as these individuals experience many of the risk factors associated with loneliness. This experience of loneliness tends to lead to numerous consequences such as negative self-evaluations, anxiety, and depression, which in turn lead to impaired concentration and a decline in academic…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Communication, College Students
Chelidoni, O.; Berry, C.; Easterbrook, M. J.; Chapman, L.; Banerjee, R.; Valex, S.; Niven, J. E. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
The current research aimed to evaluate UK student mental health during the first 4 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we were interested in exploring factors that contribute to students' anxiety levels about COVID-19. Demographics, mental health symptomatology and well-being-related variables were tested as predictors of COVID-19…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety, Foreign Countries