Abstract
Religiousness has a positive effect on the mental health of an individual and social groups in many difficult situations. In the conducted research, we wanted to check, inter alia, whether religiosity and social support are positively related to the mental health of students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland and Ukraine. The research was conducted at a time (August 2021) when the very contagious Delta variant was spreading over Europe, and numerous pandemic-related personal restrictions and obligations (such as using facemasks in selected places, social distancing, and obligatory self-isolation of the ill or those who had contact with the pathogen) were in force in both countries. For this purpose, a representative survey was carried out using the CAPI technique on a sample of 1000 students in Poland (50% boys and 50% girls in the age range 10-19) and 1022 in Ukraine (51% boys and 49% girls in the age range 10-18). The results of the research shows that depression measured by the PHQ-9 scale was experienced by 20% of students in Poland, and 13% in Ukrainian. Anxiety, measured with the GAD-7 scale, was experienced by 9% of the Polish and 6% of the Ukrainian students. The performed regression analysis showed that religiosity had no effect on the mental health of students. The main risk factor for mental disorders was the lack of social support.
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Poland; Ukraine; mental health; philosophy of religion; social support; students; subjective religiosity.
【저자키워드】 mental health, COVID-19 pandemic, students, Poland, Social support, Ukraine, philosophy of religion, subjective religiosity., 【초록키워드】 COVID-19, Europe, Depression, mental health, social distancing, COVID-19 pandemic, facemasks, Poland, risk factor, delta variant, Mental Disorders, Mental disorder, pathogen, Research, Social support, age, facemask, group, Religiosity, Ukraine, philosophy of religion, Contact, no effect, contact with, PHQ-9, Support, Self-isolation, regression analysis, religion, GAD-7, force, positive, contagious, Mental, Philosophy, selected, performed, lack, carried, conducted, had no, obligatory, 【제목키워드】 COVID-19, Europe, Social support, student, Subjective,