*Article* **The Psychological Symptoms of College Student in China during the Lockdown of COVID-19 Epidemic**

**Yin Li, Linbo Qin, Yaobin Shi and Jun Han \***

College of Resources and Environment Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China; liyin@wust.edu.cn (Y.L.); qinlinbo@wust.edu.cn (L.Q.); shiyaobin@wust.edu.cn (Y.S.) **\*** Correspondence: hanjun@wust.edu.cn; Tel.:+86-27-6886-2880

**Abstract:** The COVID-19 epidemic has had a huge impact on the mental state of human beings due to its high infection and fatality rates in early 2020. In this paper, a cross-sectional online survey was designed to understand the mental state of college students in a university located in Wuhan city during the lockdown. Out of 1168 respondents, above 50% participants had obvious fear and anxiety symptoms; anxiety and fear were 61.64% and 58.39%, respectively. Conformity (49.49%), invulnerability (26.11%), insensitivity (21.49%) and rebelliousness (12.41%) symptoms also appeared. Meanwhile, it was revealed that the senior students experienced more anxiety than the freshmen. Moreover, it was found that the psychological symptoms (except for the insensitivity symptom) had no significant difference in gender, residence and annual household income after the one-way analysis of variance.

**Keywords:** psychological symptom; college student; COVID-19; lockdown

**Citation:** Li, Y.; Qin, L.; Shi, Y.; Han, J. The Psychological Symptoms of College Student in China during the Lockdown of COVID-19 Epidemic. *Healthcare* **2021**, *9*, 447. https:// doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040447

Academic Editors: Manoj Sharma and Kavita Batra

Received: 31 March 2021 Accepted: 9 April 2021 Published: 11 April 2021

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