Greek College Students and Psychopathology: New Insights

Abstract

Background: College students’ mental health problems include depression, anxiety, panic disorders, phobias and obsessive compulsive thoughts. Aims: To investigate Greek college students’ psychopathology. Methods: During the initial evaluation, 638 college students were assessed through the following psychometric questionnaires: (a) Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ); (b) The Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90); (c) The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI); (d) State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Results: State anxiety and trait anxiety were correlated, to a statistically significant degree, with the family status of the students (p = 0.024) and the past visits to the psychiatrist (p = 0.039) respectively. The subscale of psychoticism is significantly related with the students’ origin, school, family status and semester. The subscale of neuroticism is significantly related with the students’ school. The subscale of extraversion is significantly related with the students’ family psychiatric history. Students, whose place of origin is Attica, have on average higher scores in somatization, phobic anxiety and paranoid ideation than the other students. Students from abroad have, on average, higher scores in interpersonal sensitivity and psychoticism than students who hail from other parts of Greece. The majority of the students (79.7%) do not suffer from depression, according to the Beck’s depression inventory scale. Conclusions: Anxiety, somatization, personality traits and depression are related with the students’ college life.

Predicting First-Year College Student Retention: Validation of the College Persistence Questionnaire in a Spanish Sample

“…More traditional studies analyze the predictive capacity of students' pre-university variables on academic success, concluding that High School GPA (HSGPA) results on standardized achievement tests (SAT-ACT) and socioeconomic status are significant predictors of first year students' (FYS) achievement and permanence until graduation [8]. Another broad set of studies analyze the predictive capacity of students' socio-personal characteristics (e.g., personality, learning styles and strategies), contextual influences (e.g., family support, financial difficulties), FYS experience variables (e.g., academic and social integration), and the effectiveness of actions taken by universities to foment students' learning and involvement [9][10][11]. Recent meta-analytical studies highlight the incremental validity of these variables on precedents predicting both academic achievement and permanence [12][13][14].…”

A Scrutiny on the Changes in the Self-Respect, Anxiety, and Depression Levels of the University Students Performing Individual and Team Sports

“…In this study where the changes in the self-respect, anxiety and depression levels of the university students conducting individual and team sports are scrutinized, no change was observed between the self-respect averages of leading health problem in both genders but it is observed 50% more in females than in males. While studies regarding the fact that the depression and anxiety levels of females are higher than males (WHO 2015;WHO 2012;Arkoç 2019;Kaya, Genç , Kaya & Pehlivan, 2007;Alfaris, Naghma Naeem, Irfan, Qureshi & Van Der Vleuten, 2014;Reyes-Rodriguez, Rivera-Medina, Camara Fuentes, Suarez-Torres & Bernal, 2013;Hasegawa, Hattori, Nishimura & Tanno, 2015;Esen, 2014) are encountered, it is also possible to see studies (Ören & Genç doğan, 2007;Özdel L, Bostancı, Özdel O & Oğuzhanoğlu, 2002;Kontoangelos et al, 2015;Ahmadi J, Ahmadi N, Soltani & Bayat, 2014) reporting the presence of no difference. It was determined that the self-respect average values were at moderate level in females, at high level in males, while the depression average values were at low levels in females and males and anxiety values are low in males and moderate in females (table 1).…”

Üniversitede okuyan kız öğrencilerde depresyon prevalansı ve ilişkili faktörler

“…Deveci ve arkadaşları sağlık durumunu "kötü" olarak değerlendiren öğrencilerde BDÖ skoru ortalamasını yüksek bulmuşlardı 8 . Farklı ülkelerde yapılan çalışmaların sonuçları da bizim bulgumuzu desteklemektedir 6,10,18,26 . Yunanistan'da sağlık sorunu olan öğrencilerde depresyon belirtilerinin iki kat fazla görüldüğü saptanmıştır 18 .…”

“…Farklı ülkelerde yapılan çalışmaların sonuçları da bizim bulgumuzu desteklemektedir 6,10,18,26 . Yunanistan'da sağlık sorunu olan öğrencilerde depresyon belirtilerinin iki kat fazla görüldüğü saptanmıştır 18 . Sağlık sorunu olan öğrencilere üniversitenin sağlık kuruluşu tarafından sağaltım hizmetlerinin sağlanması öğrencinin ruhsal sağlığının korunmasına da yardımcı olabilir.…”

“…Literatürde depresyonun kadınlarda erkeklere göre daha fazla görüldüğü belirtilmektedir 1,[11][12][13][14][15][16][23][24][25] Bu araştırmanın amacı, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi sağlık kampüsünde sağlık ile ilgili alanlarda öğrenime yeni başlayan kız öğrencilerde depresyon prevalansını belirlemek ve bireysel, sosyodemografik ve sağlıkla ilişkili faktörlerin depresyonla ilişkisini araştırmaktır. Depresyon prevalansını aile öyküsü, sosyal ve ekonomik düzey, yaşanan yer, üniversitenin özellikleri ve bireysel özellikler gibi pek çok değişken etkileyebilmektedir 1,18,19,22 . Araştırmamızda anne babanın öğrenim düzeyi ile öğrencilerde depresyon belirtisi varlığı arasında anlamlı ilişki saptanmamıştır.…”