ABSTRACT
College was already a stressful time for many individuals, and COVID has added another major stress to change college life, highlighting the importance of stress management skills and increased cognitive resilience. The goals of the current study included 1) comparing stress, executive functioning (EF), resilience, alcohol use, and school connectedness of students during the pandemic and normed data;2) examining the relationship between resilience and stress;3) investigating the effects of class standing, alcohol use, and stress on EF (self-report and performance-based measures) and resilience;4) studying the interaction of class standing, alcohol use, and stress levels after the impact of an acute stressor on EF. Participants completed the Trail Making Test and Tower of London and the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test - Computerized followed by the Cued Go/No-Go Task. Data was collected from college students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (n=462). Current findings indicated that students reported significantly less problematic alcohol use, alcohol use to cope, premeditation, school connectedness, as well as more stress and planning abilities than students prior to the pandemic. When comparing association among the variables, self-reported and performance-based EF were associated with resilience and school connectedness measures. Lowerclassman college students who endorsed severe stress with high problematic drinking reported less impulsive behaviors (i.e., more premeditation) than upperclassman students who endorsed severe stress with high problematic drinking. Additionally, Lowerclassman students who endorsed low problematic drinking rated themselves as possessing greater resilience than upperclassman students with high problematic drinking group. Also, upperclassmen who endorsed problematic alcohol use and severe stress made fewer omission errors than the rest of the sample after the acute stressor was presented. The current results demonstrated the changes in students' experiences during the pandemic associated with more stress than in previous cohorts, emphasizing the importance of building resources to increase students' resilience and connectedness to campus. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
ABSTRACT
College was already a stressful time for many individuals, and COVID has added another major stress to change college life, highlighting the importance of stress management skills and increased cognitive resilience. The goals of the current study included 1) comparing stress, executive functioning (EF), resilience, alcohol use, and school connectedness of students during the pandemic and normed data;2) examining the relationship between resilience and stress;3) investigating the effects of class standing, alcohol use, and stress on EF (self-report and performance-based measures) and resilience;4) studying the interaction of class standing, alcohol use, and stress levels after the impact of an acute stressor on EF. Participants completed the Trail Making Test and Tower of London and the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test - Computerized followed by the Cued Go/No-Go Task. Data was collected from college students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (n=462). Current findings indicated that students reported significantly less problematic alcohol use, alcohol use to cope, premeditation, school connectedness, as well as more stress and planning abilities than students prior to the pandemic. When comparing association among the variables, self-reported and performance-based EF were associated with resilience and school connectedness measures. Lowerclassman college students who endorsed severe stress with high problematic drinking reported less impulsive behaviors (i.e., more premeditation) than upperclassman students who endorsed severe stress with high problematic drinking. Additionally, Lowerclassman students who endorsed low problematic drinking rated themselves as possessing greater resilience than upperclassman students with high problematic drinking group. Also, upperclassmen who endorsed problematic alcohol use and severe stress made fewer omission errors than the rest of the sample after the acute stressor was presented. The current results demonstrated the changes in students' experiences during the pandemic associated with more stress than in previous cohorts, emphasizing the importance of building resources to increase students' resilience and connectedness to campus. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
ABSTRACT
Publications about COVID-19 have occurred practically since the first outbreak. Therefore, studying the evolution of the scientific publications on COVID-19 can provide us with information on current research trends and can help researchers and policymakers to form a structured view of the existing evidence base of COVID-19 and provide new research directions. This growth rate was so impressive that the need for updated information and research tools become essential to mitigate the spread of the virus. Therefore, traditional bibliographic research procedures, such as systematic reviews and meta-analyses, become time-consuming and limited in focus. This study aims to study the scientific literature on COVID-19 that has been published since its inception and to map the evolution of research in the time range between February 2020 and January 2022. The search was carried out in PubMed extracting topics using text mining and latent Dirichlet allocation modeling and a trend analysis was performed to analyze the temporal variations in research for each topic. We also study the distribution of these topics between countries and journals. 126,334 peer-reviewed articles and 16 research topics were identified. The countries with the highest number of scientific publications were the United States of America, China, Italy, United Kingdom, and India, respectively. Regarding the distribution of the number of publications by journal, we found that of the 7040 sources Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, PLoS ONE, and Sci. Rep., were the ones that led the publications on COVID-19. We discovered a growing tendency for eight topics (Prevention, Telemedicine, Vaccine immunity, Machine learning, Academic parameters, Risk factors and morbidity and mortality, Information synthesis methods, and Mental health), a falling trend for five of them (Epidemiology, COVID-19 pathology complications, Diagnostic test, Etiopathogenesis, and Political and health factors), and the rest varied throughout time with no discernible patterns (Therapeutics, Pharmacological and therapeutic target, and Repercussion health services).