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Relationships are central to mental health as social connections help people to manage workplace stress and health concerns. As COVID-19 alters the nature and frequency of pre-pandemic social connections, people have turned to religion and nontraditional sources of social support such as pets and social media (Dominick et al., 2021; Okafor et al., 2021). Since the virus’s global outbreak in early 2020, COVID-19 has upended how people organize personal and professional endeavors. This pandemic has frustrated individuals as they must constantly adapt to the changing crisis and responding restrictions, adding stress to people’s lives as they cope with loss and trauma.

Given the persisting pandemic, we investigated how COVID-19 has affected college students living in a metropolis in Southern United States. This metropolis has one of the world’s largest medical centers, and so we compared college students …