The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation Model
The aim of this study was to test the causal relationship among fear of Covid-19, loneliness, and depression from Covid-19. The study sample consisted of 605 undergraduate students recruited from a public university. They completed three scales: fear of Covid-19, depression from Covid-19, and lonel...
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Indonesian Counselor Association (IKI)
2023-08-01
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| author | Yousef Abdelqader Abu Shind Muna Abdullah Al-Bahrani Hussain Ali Alkharusi |
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The aim of this study was to test the causal relationship among fear of Covid-19, loneliness, and depression from Covid-19. The study sample consisted of 605 undergraduate students recruited from a public university. They completed three scales: fear of Covid-19, depression from Covid-19, and loneliness. The results revealed a good fit index for the proposed path model. The fear of Covid-19 predicted two types of loneliness emotional and social negatively. A positive association between depression and emotional as well as social loneliness was found. A total of 43% of the variance in depression was explained by loneliness. Depression was potentially a mediating factor between a fear of pandemic and the feeling of loneliness. A counseling intervention can be designed based on these results.
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| spelling | doaj.art-feabe01bf4e94c3aa31ea04b04a49f9a2023-08-27T12:37:29ZengIndonesian Counselor Association (IKI)COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education2548-348X2548-34982023-08-018110.23916/0020230837510The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation ModelYousef Abdelqader Abu Shind0Muna Abdullah Al-Bahrani1Hussain Ali Alkharusi2Sultan Qaboos UniversitySultan Qaboos UniversitySultan Qaboos University The aim of this study was to test the causal relationship among fear of Covid-19, loneliness, and depression from Covid-19. The study sample consisted of 605 undergraduate students recruited from a public university. They completed three scales: fear of Covid-19, depression from Covid-19, and loneliness. The results revealed a good fit index for the proposed path model. The fear of Covid-19 predicted two types of loneliness emotional and social negatively. A positive association between depression and emotional as well as social loneliness was found. A total of 43% of the variance in depression was explained by loneliness. Depression was potentially a mediating factor between a fear of pandemic and the feeling of loneliness. A counseling intervention can be designed based on these results. https://counsedu.iicet.org/index.php/counsedu/article/view/375KeywordslonelinessCovid-19feardepressionuniversity students |
| spellingShingle | Yousef Abdelqader Abu Shind Muna Abdullah Al-Bahrani Hussain Ali Alkharusi The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation Model COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education Keywords loneliness Covid-19 fear depression university students |
| title | The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation Model |
| title_full | The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation Model |
| title_fullStr | The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation Model |
| title_short | The Relationship Between Fear, Loneliness, and Depression Among University Students: A Structural Equation Model |
| title_sort | relationship between fear loneliness and depression among university students a structural equation model |
| topic | Keywords loneliness Covid-19 fear depression university students |
| url | https://counsedu.iicet.org/index.php/counsedu/article/view/375 |
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