High-level social support alleviates the negative effect of life stress on postgraduate students’ mental health during campus enclosed management of the COVID-19 Omicron pandemic

Background: Mental health problems, especially anxiety and depression, during the pandemic caused by Omicron variant have aroused a great concern. The drastic change in daily routine leads to higher level of life stress. Since postgraduate students usually worse mental they could be vulnerable Social support would protective factor against depression anxiety, might play moderating role between stress these indices. Aims: This study is explore relationship health, how social alleviates such relationship. Methods: A set online questionnaires, including (1) items 11 points visual analog scale (VAS) measure students’ current support, (2) Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), (3) Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), was handed out from several universities Shanghai. Data 110 were collected analyzed. Pearson correlations mediate effect tests conducted verify potential Results: Life positively correlated with depression. negatively interaction played significant predicting (β = –0.020, p 0.044). also predicted –0.025, 0.009). Conclusions: High-level had effectively mitigated steep slope restrained which indicated that more available promising alleviate risk static management period.