Mental Well-Being in UK Higher Education During Covid-19: Do Students Trust Universities and the Government?

• Main Authors: Margaret Anne Defeyter (Author), Paul B. Stretesky (Author), Michael A. Long (Author), Sinéad Furey (Author), Christian Reynolds (Author), Debbie Porteous (Author), Alyson Dodd (Author), Emily Mann (Author), Anna Kemp (Author), James Fox (Author), Andrew McAnallen (Author), Lara Gonçalves (Author)
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• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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This paper draws upon the concept of recreancy to examine the mental well-being of university students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Briefly, recreancy is loss of societal trust that results when institutional actors can no longer be counted on to perform their responsibilities. Our study of mental...