University Honors

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) as a globalpublic health emergency of international concern in January 2020, and a global pandemic byMach 2020 (Cucinotta & Vanelli, 2020). With 1,400 deaths reported globally by February 2020(Harapan et al., 2020), many studies began identifying the -rather unsurprising- rapid social andcognitive transformations, and the positive and negative pandemic-related consequences(Wagner, 2023). However, the overview on university students and how social disclosuresshifted throughout the pandemic and beyond virtual means post-pandemic is limited. Moreover,less is known about whether an unexpected online curriculum negatively altered student’s well-being in each wave of the pandemic through communication mediums to maintain peerrelationships. The current study sets out to examine whether different disclosure mediums tomaintain social engagement throughout the pandemic altered well-being and a connection toothers. “Daily Diary” surveys were collected for 10 days from undergraduate students at theUniversity of California, Riverside in three waves (pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic) to measure social disclosures and well-being from different interactions encounteredeach day through different mediums. We used mixed effect linear regression models viadeviation coding to analyze the changes of mood and feelings of connection across the variouswaves of the pandemic. For further analysis we also used interactions variables to betterunderstand the factors influencing mood and feelings of connection in the sample of participantsengaging in a variety of disclosure mediums across different waves of the pandemic.