MENTAL HEALTH OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: ASPECT OF GENDER DIFFERENCES
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Apr 4, 2022
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In the article, mental health is considered as a dynamic process, and as a result, reflecting the level of adaptation to the environment, productivity, self-realization in life and an active life position. It is determined that high indicators of psychological and emotional stress, anxiety, tension, inactivity, characteristic deterioration of individual mental processes and performance in this group, especially during the Covid- 19 pandemic. A theoretical study allowed us to establish that the mental health indicators of female students during their studies at universities are reduced, compared to male students, which is manifested in high indicators of anxiety, neuroticism, stress, lower indicators of quality of life satisfaction, and higher levels of risk of developing depression. In contrast to female students, male students are more likely to have higher levels of physical and mental health, vital activity, and higher rates of individual mental functions. It is established that situational (pandemic conditions, students’ adaptation to distance learning, etc.) and personal factors largely determine the stability of mental health and well-being, as well as define the level of experiences, behavior, and the course of mental processes, and physiological reactions, rather than the gender of students.
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Volkov, D., & Abaturova, O. (2022). MENTAL HEALTH OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: ASPECT OF GENDER DIFFERENCES. Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences, (2), 39-48. https://doi.org/10.30525/2592-8813-2021-2-5
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mental health, gender differences, personal characteristics, students, anxiety, extraversion, neuroticism, mental state of individual
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19. Pikovets, N.V. (2020) Psykhichne zdorovʼia yak sotsialno-psykholohichnyi chynnyk profesiinoi diialnosti vykladacha vyshchoho navchalnoho zakladu [Mental health as a socio-psychological factor in the professional activity of a teacher of higher education] (dys. … kand. psykhol. nauk). Skhidnoukrainskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni Volodymyra Dalia. Sievierodonetsk, Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
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21. Sevriuk, M.P., Tsipoviaz, A.T., Loshytska, T.I., & Sankov, S.V. (2005). Zaluchennia studentiv tekhnichnykh ZVO do zaniat fizychnoiu kulturoiu i sportom z metoiu formuvannia zdorovoho sposobu zhyttia). [Involvement of students of technical free economic zones in physical culture and sports in order to form a healthy lifestyle]. Pedahohika, psykholohiia ta med.-biol. prob. fiz. vykhovannia i sportu, 21, 73–80 [in Ukrainian].
22. Semutenko, K.M., Cheshyk, Y.A., & Sharshakova, T.M. (2014). Kliuchevye determynanty muzhskoho zdorovia (soobshchenye I) [Key determinants of men’s health (message I)]. Problemy zdorovia y ekolohyy, 4 (42), 13–19 [in Ukrainian].
23. Stakhova, O.O., & Kolomiiets, A.M. (2015). Tryvozhnist ta yii vplyv na psykhichne zdorovia studentiv [Anxiety and its impact on students’ mental health]. Zbirnyk statei uchasnykiv visimnadtsiatoi vseukrainskoi praktychno-piznavalnoi konferentsii (s. 25–30). 26 lystopada, 2015, Kyiv, Ukraina: HO “Vektor poshuku” [in Ukrainian].
24. Khanyn, Yu.L. (1976) Spylberhera-Khanyna test: Kratkoe rukovodstvo k prymenenyiu shkaly reaktyvnoi y lychnostnoi trevozhnosty [Spielberger-Hanin test: A brief guide to the application of the reactive and personal anxiety scale]. L.: LNYYFK [in Russian].
25. Khromenkova, Yu.Iu., Korsak, V.O., Kapshuk, E.A., Terekhova, O.E., Olenko, E.S., & Deeva, M.A. (2015). Psykhofyzyolohycheskye predposylky sklonnosty k depressyy u muzhchyn y zhenshchyn [Psychophysiological preconditions for the tendency to depression in men and women]. Biulleten medytsynskykh ynternet-konferentsyi, 5 (5), 741 [in Russian].
26. Shalamova, E.Iu., & Safonova, V.R. (2013). Henderno-polovыe osobennosty kachestva zhyzny studentov mladshykh kursov severnoho medytsynskoho vuza [Gender and gender features of the quality of life of junior students of the Northern Medical University]. Ekolohyia cheloveka, 4, 8–12 [in Russian].
27. Blumenthal, S.J. (1996). Women’s Mental Health: The New National Focus. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 789 (1), 1–16 [in English].
28. Cook, L.J. (2007). Striving to help college students with mental health issues. Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services, 45 (4), 40–44.
29. Lloyd, C., & Gartrell, N.K. (1981). Sex differences in medical student mental health. The American journal of psychiatry, 138 (10), 1346–1351.
30. Ng, P., & Chan, K.F. (2000). Sex differences in opinion towards mental illness of secondary school students in Hong Kong. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 46 (2), 79–88.
31. Pedrelli, P., Nyer, M., Yeung, A., Zulauf, C., & Wilens, T. (2015). College students: mental health problems and treatment considerations. Academic Psychiatry, 39 (5), 503–511.
32. Storrie, K., Ahern, K., & Tuckett, A. (2010). A systematic review: students with mental health problems – a growing problem. International journal of nursing practice, 16 (1), 1–6.