Citation

García-Rivera BR, García-Alcaraz JL, Mendoza-Martínez IA, Olguín-Tiznado JE, García-Alcaráz P, Aranibar MF, Camargo-Wilson C. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021; 18(24): e12891.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph182412891

PMID

34948502

Abstract

This research uses structural equation modeling to determine the influence of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic as an independent variable in the negative emotional states and resilience (as mediating variables) vs. drug addiction, alcoholism, and suicide ideation as dependent variables in 5557 students from a public state university in Northern Mexico. The five variables are related through eight hypotheses and tested using partial least squares. We used an adapted questionnaire sent by email in May 2020.

FINDINGS show that uncertainty facing the COVID-19 pandemic had a direct and significant influence on negative emotional states and a significant inverse effect on resilience; in the trajectory, drug addiction and alcoholism, and suicide ideation are explained.

Language: en

Keywords

resilience; drug addiction; alcoholism; emotional states; faculty students; pandemics; suicide ideation; uncertainty