The investigation of relationship between anxiety, depression and sleep quality in college students during covid-19 pandemic

Anxiety is a future-oriented mood associated with being prepared for upcoming negative events. Depression; it is a mood disorder that is often accompanied by emotions such as sadness and anger, which disrupts the functionality of the person's daily life. Sleep quality is the feeling of being fit, fit and ready for a new day after waking up. Due to the necessity of maintaining social isolation and social distance in terms of prevention and protection of the pandemic, it negatively affected anxiety and depression and caused deterioration in sleep quality. Situations such as taking a break from schools, social isolation, spending more time at home, and transitioning to online education in the Covid-19 pandemic have caused young adults to experience complex situations and emotions. The relationship of anxiety, depression, sleep quality of university students in the covid-19 pandemic was investigated and presented with quantitative findings. Participants in the research undergraduate, graduate students at Istanbul Gelişim University and Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, and it consists of 278 young adults between the ages of 18-30. Demographic information form, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory were given to applicant. The current research was conducted in accordance with the relational screening model to reveal the relationships between sleep quality, depression and anxiety level in a sample of young adults during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, mean, standard deviation, kurtosis and skewness values were used for descriptive statistics. In the evaluation of mean differences, t-Test was used for independent instances. Regression analysis technique with Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to evaluate the relations between variables. The data collected within the scope of the research were tested with the IBM Spss 25 package program. A level of .05 was taken for statistical significance in the entire study. As a result, it was found that the duration of sleep decreased the level of depression and anxiety; it can be stated that the scores obtained from other sub-domains increase the levels of depression and anxiety. When the explained variances were evaluated, it was observed that the variance explained by sleep quality in anxiety was higher than in depression.