The Mental Representation of the Emotional Universe and that Related to Bonding among University Students of Health Sciences

Assessing emotional, empathic and coping skills in Spanish undergraduates in Health Sciences and Social Sciences

“…Our findings provide information that may help design programmes to train students in skills for handling and regulating emotions (González Cabanach, et al, 2017;Martínez-Lorca et al, 2017), particularly for undergraduates studying for Social Sciences degrees. This would not only give such students the intrapsychic resources required to successfully cope with academic demands and stress but would also help them achieve the skills needed in their future careers.…”

“…Detecting these skills is the first step towards subsequently undertaking work and actions in prevention and training in emotional and psychosocial resources, in order to achieve the highest possible level of psychoemotional well-being. Students would then be provided with personal self-knowledge tools and would learn how to manage them, helping them to deal with the reality in which they move in a more functional, meaningful and adaptive manner (Balaji et al, 2019;Dilber et al, 2016;Fernández-Rodríguez et al, 2019;Martínez-Lorca et al, 2017;Tang et al, 2018).…”

“…Thus, good emotional development, proper empathy, intrapersonal resources, and solid social skills may help individuals develop positive physical and psychological health, feel less psychosocial stress, achieve better academic performance, attainment and success, and develop greater life satisfaction, among other elements (Molano-Tobar et al, 2021;Morales-Rodríguez, 2020;Ordóñez, et al, 2014;Parhiala et al, 2018;Vega-Hernández et al, 2017;Villanueva et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2016). However, these intrapersonal resources are not always developed in university students, as they are effected by diverse variables, such as gender and age where the women and older students have better scores (Cañero et al, 2019;Irfan et al, 2019;Livingstone & Isaacowitz, 2018;Serrada-Tejeda et al, 2022;Quince et al, 2016), type of degree course (Balaji et al, 2019;Fernández-Rodríguez et al, 2019), engagement in physical activity or sport improve self-esteem, self-concept, social skills and emotional manage (Acebes-Sánchez et al, 2019;Adarve et al, 2019;Alvear-Galindo et al, 2014;Grasdalsmoen et al, 2020;López et al, 2021;Rivas-Espinosa et al, 2019;Tang et al, 2020), free time satisfaction (Misra & McKean, 2000), socioeconomic status (Balaji et al, 2019;Vine, et al, 2012) and type of family (Balaji et al, 2019), etc. Incorporating these, and other higher education resources, during the years of university students' educational and professional training could help them effectively cope with stress, anxiety, emotional distress and might enhance performance (Balaji et al, 2019;Cañero et al, 2019;Dilber et al, 2016;Martínez-Lorca, et al, 2017).…”

Somatic Symptoms and Emotional Health during the COVID-19 Epidemic in Spanish University Students

“…Future research is needed to determinate more about the relation of sadness in COVID-19 pandemic to know the relationship among this emotion in order to develop psychological prevention or intervention programs if our students had some depressive symptoms. Besides, sadness is a fundamental emotion for survival and adaptation, which leads us to advance, change, distance ourselves, etc., for this reason, it is necessary understand the utility of sadness [40]. Well-managed sadness leads to reflexion and to an awareness that may provide us with strategies and mechanisms that will lead to the change that we need in this moment of COVID-19 outbreak.…”

“…Furthermore, these findings suggest there may be value in implementing psychological measures of COVID-19 at the University to avoid possibly psychosomatic problems where the aim should be teaching to students how to recognize the different emotions, be more confident, have control, take calm, be security, etc. Previous studies have taught the development of management of emotional abilities and skills with positive results among university students [40,[46][47][48].…”