Objective To explore the impact effect of COVID-19-related stress on college students’ social adaptation, the mediating role of patience and social support and compare the differences of mediating effect between them. Methods A total of 3219 college students were recruited through random sampling clusters, and assessed via the COVID-19-related stress questionnaire, Social adaptation inventory (SAI), Patience questionnaire (PQ) and Social support rating scale (SSRS), and the mediating effect was tested by utilizing the SPSS Process (model 6). Results (1) College students’ COVID-19-related stress was significantly positive related to patience Questionnaire (PQ) (r=0.297, P<0.01) and Social Support (SSRS) (r=0.229, P<0.01), and it was significantly negative related to Social adaptation inventory (SAI) (r=-0.430, P<0.01). PQ was positive related to SAI (r=0.374, P<0.01), SSRS was positive related to SAI (r=0.283, P<0.01). PQ was positive related to SSRS (r=0.271, P<0.01). (2) Patience partly mediated the relationship between COVID-19-related stress and social adaptation (β=0.049, 95% CI: 0.039 ~0.062). Meanwhile, the social support partly mediated the relationship between COVID-19-related stress and social adaptation (β=0.016, 95% CI: 0.009~0.025). Conclusion The results suggested that college students’ COVID-19-related stress have the negative effect on their Social adaptation, while patience and social support have a buffering effect on this effect and the mediating effect of patience is higher than that of social support. |