Download or read book Coping Styles and Depressive Symptoms Among First Year College Students written by Sarah Mia Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning college is a stressful time in any young person’s life. Most of these individuals are transitioning out of high school, into emerging adulthood, and learning to navigate university life. First-year college students are the most vulnerable population to various mental health problems, especially depression (Wei, Russel & Zakalik, 2005). Student enrollment into college has increased by 27 percent since 2000 and the diversity among college campuses has increased significantly (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). With such an influx of change in the population in American universities, there is a growing need to better understand and support the emotional needs of students of all ethnicities. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between positive, negative, and social coping strategies and the levels of depression among a diverse sample of first-year college students. The relationship between coping strategies and ethnicity was measured as well as the relationship between coping strategies, ethnicities, and gender. The participants in this study are first-year college students who attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, Metropolitan Campus located in Teaneck New Jersey. The total sample includes 675 participants, 27.1 percent of which are Latinx, 25.8 percent White, 18.7 percent African American, 6.1 percent other, 5.9 percent Asian American, and 3.0 percent mixed race. The modal age of the participants is 18, accounting for 64.4 percent of the sample, followed by 19, which is 23.3 percent of the sample.
Download or read book College Students written by M. V. Landow and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College students are subject to a massive input of stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. These stresses include inside and outside pressures by the world to succeed, financial worries, concerns about uncertain futures, social problems and opportunities since college is often the meeting place for future mates, and homework and tests in multiple and complex subjects requiring preparation and focus with often conflicting priorities. Unsuccessful coping often results in anxiety, heavy drinking, depression and a host of other mental health problems. This book presents new and important research in this important field.
Download or read book Coping Styles and Appraisals written by Qutayba Abdullatif Abdullatif and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measures of college adjustment and symptoms of depression in Lebanese, first-year college students were assessed as related to coping styles, primary, and secondary appraisals. The study consisted of 163 first-year students attending first-year classes at the American University of Beirut. Participants completed the College Adjustment Scale (CAS), The Coping Styles Scale (COPE), and six Likert-scale queries assessing primary and secondary appraisals. It was hypothesized that: a) higher scores on active (problem-focused) coping style would correlate with higher levels of adjustment to college and fewer depressive symptoms while passive (emotion-focused) coping style would correlate with lower levels of adjustment and higher depressive symptoms; b) higher scores on primary appraisals would correlate with use of passive (emotion-focused) coping, while higher scores on secondary appraisals would correlate with use of active (problem-focused) coping (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).--Findings partially supported the hypotheses under investigation. Active coping correlated significantly and negatively with depression, suicidal ideation, substance abuse, interpersonal problems, career problems, and family problems Passive coping correlated significantly and positively with depression, suicidal ideation, and family problems. Primary and secondary appraisals did not correlate significantly with passive and active coping, respectively.--Serious limitations to the applicability of the Lazarus and Folkman (1984) Stress and Coping model to a Lebanese first-year college sample Other exploratory findings regarding demographic factors were discussed.
Download or read book Stress and Mental Health of College Students written by M. V. Landow and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College students are subject to a massive input of stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. These stresses include inside and outside pressures by the world to succeed, financial worries, concerns about uncertain futures, social problems and opportunities since college is often the meeting place for future mates, and homework and tests in multiple and complex subjects requiring preparation and focus with often conflicting priorities. Unsuccessful coping often results in anxiety, heavy drinking, depression and a host of other mental health problems. This new book presents new and important research in this important field.
Download or read book Social Origins of Depression written by George William Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1978 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Coping Mechanisms for First Year Students Transitioning to Higher Education written by Aloka, Peter Jo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transitioning from secondary to higher education is not a natural step for many first-year students in higher education institutions. There is a considerable difference between being a student at school and university, and previous research has highlighted the difficulties faced by first-year university students during their transition phase. Higher education institutions and their departments acknowledge the challenges faced by new students, and they differ in their approach to coping with the issue; each seeks to find the most effective solution for its students. To reduce the withdrawal rate during the first year of college, higher education providers are expected to apply transition programs to help students transition. The Handbook of Research on Coping Mechanisms for First-Year Students Transitioning to Higher Education presents a comprehensive account of the dynamics in higher education institutions and culture shock for new students and analyzes models and theories of adjustment of new students in higher education institutions. Covering key topics such as gender, institutional support, and success factors, this reference work is ideal for administrators, higher education professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
Download or read book Coping with Negative Life Events written by C.R. Snyder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters" The surge of current interest in the interface between clinical and social psychology is well illustrated by the publication of a number of general texts and journals in this area, and the growing emphasis in graduate programs on providing training in both disciplines. Although the bene fits of an integrated clinical-social approach have been recognized for a number of years, the recent work in this area has advanced from the oretical extrapolations of social psychological models to clinical issues to theory and research that is based on social principles and conducted in clinical domains. It is becoming increasingly common to find social psy chologists pursuing research with clinical populations and clinical psy chologists investigating variables that have traditionally been in the realm of social psychology. A major area of interface between the two disciplines is in research and theory concerned with how individuals respond to negative events. In addition to the trend toward an integrated clinical-social approach, the growing body of literature in this area reflects the explosion of cur rent interest in the area of health psychology; work by clinical and social psychologists on the topics of stress and coping has been one of the major facets of this burgeoning field. The purpose of the present volume is to provide a common forum for recent advances in the clinical and social literature on responses to negative life outcomes.
Download or read book Major depressive disorder precursors predictors and coping mechanism written by Charles Ross and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: Major Depressive Disorders is one of the first disorders to be recognized among humanity. A number of psychologists and psychiatrists have come up with theories and myths that explain the origin of MDD. Ancient Egyptians identified the brain to be the body organ that was in charge of human consciousness (James Herbert, 2009). They believed that brain disorders could be caused by both supernatural factors and also other factors that were within human control. The Old Testament is also one of the earliest evidence of MDD. Examined as literary description of human behavior and society, MDD is described by King David and other author. It is defined as another form of psychological distress. In the earlier days, symptoms associated with MDD as per today’s standards include insomnia, fatigue, sadness and fearfulness. It is quite evident that even in the pre-classical period people had acknowledged conditions similar to MDD (James Herbert, 2009). However, the earliest written record of a medical diagnostic condition similar to MDD was in the classical era. It is the melancholia described by the Hippocrates. Melancholia is a sub set of Major Depressive Disorder but in earlier cases the word melancholia was used in place of MDD. In other parts of the world, melancholia is still used to mean MDD in today’s diagnostics (Seth Disner, 2011).
Download or read book Personality Vulnerabilities Coping and Depression written by Kim Cardilla and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Like Walking Through a Fog written by Alexandra Elora Herron and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and the mental health of first-year college students at a public university with a focus on self-reported mental health, specifically symptoms associated with depression and anxiety. The aim of this study is to address the effect of COVID-19 on first-year students and gain an understanding of specific COVID-related concerns. Qualitative analysis relies on data from 12 semi-structured interviews with first-year students, which were analyzed through focused coding, resulting in the creation of five main codes: (1) mental health, (2) transitioning to adulthood, (3) missing opportunities, (4) missing connections, and (5) participant resilience. Health anxiety as well as isolation and a sense of burnout were the top contributors to worsening mental health symptoms according to interviewees. Other top contributors reported by interviewees were the delayed transition to college, increased time with family, adjusting to newfound independence, not staying on campus, online schooling, missing important milestones, and a lack of social connectedness. Despite these struggles, interviewees described several positives such as a strengthened bond with their family, development of healthy coping mechanisms, and time for introspection. This implicates the potential for deterioration of mental health in other first-year students and the need for more research on this population.
Download or read book Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture written by William W. Dressler and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease.
Download or read book The Condition of Education 2017 written by Education Department and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Condition of Education 2017 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 42 indicators on the status and condition of education.
Download or read book Coping Skills in College Students with Anxiety And or Depression written by Kaitlyn Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxiety and depression are two common mental health problems in college students. Unfortunately, the majority of the research regarding anxiety and depression shows that individuals with these diagnoses typically use more maladaptive than adaptive coping skills. This study evaluated the coping skills of college students with anxiety and/or depression and whether they used more adaptive or maladaptive coping strategies based on the BriefCOPE at a mid-sized college campus in the Midwest. There were significant differences between responses of maladaptive and adaptive skills. Across students, the mean for adaptive coping strategies was higher than the mean for maladaptive coping strategies. This means that students with anxiety and/or depression actually used more adaptive than maladaptive coping strategies on this campus. This finding suggests that there may not be a high need for a coping skills workshop on this campus. However since students are still using maladaptive coping strategies, there may be students who would benefit from learning more adaptive coping skills.
Download or read book An Investigation of the Relationships Among Personal Resources Coping Styles and Depression in College Students written by Kanda Pooput and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depression in Parents Parenting and Children written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression is a widespread condition affecting approximately 7.5 million parents in the U.S. each year and may be putting at least 15 million children at risk for adverse health outcomes. Based on evidentiary studies, major depression in either parent can interfere with parenting quality and increase the risk of children developing mental, behavioral and social problems. Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children highlights disparities in the prevalence, identification, treatment, and prevention of parental depression among different sociodemographic populations. It also outlines strategies for effective intervention and identifies the need for a more interdisciplinary approach that takes biological, psychological, behavioral, interpersonal, and social contexts into consideration. A major challenge to the effective management of parental depression is developing a treatment and prevention strategy that can be introduced within a two-generation framework, conducive for parents and their children. Thus far, both the federal and state response to the problem has been fragmented, poorly funded, and lacking proper oversight. This study examines options for widespread implementation of best practices as well as strategies that can be effective in diverse service settings for diverse populations of children and their families. The delivery of adequate screening and successful detection and treatment of a depressive illness and prevention of its effects on parenting and the health of children is a formidable challenge to modern health care systems. This study offers seven solid recommendations designed to increase awareness about and remove barriers to care for both the depressed adult and prevention of effects in the child. The report will be of particular interest to federal health officers, mental and behavioral health providers in diverse parts of health care delivery systems, health policy staff, state legislators, and the general public.
Download or read book Public Health Promotion in University Students written by Pavel Dietz and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one's potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential is fostered. Mentoring relationships provide developmental spaces in which students' STEMM skills are honed and pathways into STEMM fields can be discovered. Because mentorship can be so influential in shaping the future STEMM workforce, its occurrence should not be left to chance or idiosyncratic implementation. There is a gap between what we know about effective mentoring and how it is practiced in higher education. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM studies mentoring programs and practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It explores the importance of mentorship, the science of mentoring relationships, mentorship of underrepresented students in STEMM, mentorship structures and behaviors, and institutional cultures that support mentorship. This report and its complementary interactive guide present insights on effective programs and practices that can be adopted and adapted by institutions, departments, and individual faculty members.
