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Zorach, Inbar Aharoni; Lipka, Orly – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
The current study examined the adjustment to higher education among students with mental health disorders, focusing on adjustment to post-secondary education, emotional and metacognitive variables. The participants were 123 students who had already completed at least one year at an institution of higher education: 63 students who self-identified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Mental Disorders, Life Satisfaction
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Hanna Agius; Anne-Kristina Luoto; Anna Backman; Carina Eriksdotter; Nitya Jayaram-Lindström; Sven Bölte; Tatja Hirvikoski – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic adults report high stress and impaired ability to cope with stressors. Mindfulness-based stress reduction targets individual's own resources to regulate stress responses. An open feasibility study was conducted in an outpatient context, recruiting autistic adults without intellectual disability. The intervention, guided by trained…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Metacognition, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults
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Kaixin Liang; Kelly Ka Lai Lam; Liuyue Huang; Xiuyun Lin; Zhiyong Wang; Honghai Liu; Peilian Chi – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Parenting stress experienced by parents of autistic children is well-documented. Recent evidence suggests that self-compassion may be a protective factor against parenting stress. However, it's not clear how self-compassion contributes to better parenting outcomes. This study examined the associations among self-compassion, mental health…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Parents, Child Rearing, Children
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Rehab, Tahoon – Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 2021
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of test anxiety and dimensions of distance education on general anxiety and life satisfaction of university students. A total of 426 university students voluntarily asked to respond on online scales of test anxiety, distance education, general anxiety, and life satisfaction. The results…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Distance Education, Anxiety, Life Satisfaction
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Katherine Tolcher; Madalyn Cauble; Andrew Downs – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To evaluate the effects of three different gratitude interventions on college student well-being. Participants: Participants were 132 college students at a university in the northwest sampled between September 2019 and February 2020. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to one of three gratitude interventions (journaling,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, College Students, Intervention
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Michele W. Marenus; Kathryn Friedman; Julia Sanowski; Andy Murray; Haley Ottensoser; Ana Cahuas; Varun Kumaravel; Weiyun Chen – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of mental health, subjective well-being, and the impact of COVID-19 on quality of life with PA intensity among college students. Participants: The sample included 1262 college students from a large Midwestern research university (mean age = 21.5 ± 3.6 years). Methods:…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Will Futch; Nakia S. Gordon; Alyson C. Gerdes – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To increase our knowledge related to student wellness programs, the current studies examined interest in wellness and wellness programs among university students and piloted a newly developed wellness program targeting students in higher education. Participants/Methods: In Study 1, 93 undergraduate students answered questions related to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Wellness, Student Interests, Mental Health
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Ibrahim Dadandi; Senel Çitak – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
University students are susceptible to psychological issues due to various academic and social stressors in their lives. Decreased life satisfaction among these students can result in a wide variety of adverse outcomes, which can negatively impact their overall well-being and academic performance. The current study aims at examining the mediating…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Student Attitudes
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Jonathan R. Trinidad; Theresa C. Suarez – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Nearly a quarter of Hispanic college students experience race-based bias and discrimination on college campuses (McLennan & Jacobo, 2018). These experiences often take the form of microaggressions or subtle everyday interactions conveying negative messages toward marginalized groups (Ogunyemi et al., 2020). Among Hispanic college students at…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Racism, Predominantly White Institutions, Minority Serving Institutions
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Rhein, Douglas; Nanni, Alexander – SAGE Open, 2022
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warned of the increasing rate of mental well-being issues among university students. The pandemic impacted the university-age populations, which studies have found to be particularly at risk for COVID-related stress, anxiety, and depression. There is cause for concern, particularly in countries such as…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Life Satisfaction, Mental Health, Foreign Countries
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Um, Byeolbee; Bardhoshi, Gerta – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2023
This study examined psychometric properties of scores on the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) with a nonclinical sample of senior games athletes (N = 383). Information on the internal reliability, item-scale correlations, structural validity, and concurrent validity of the DASS-21 scores is provided to test its applicability to senior…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Stress Variables
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Seth J. Schwartz; Beyhan Ertanir; Audrey Harkness; Byron L. Zamboanga; Melissa L. Bessaha; John B. Bartholomew; Alan Meca; Minas Michikyan; Maria Duque; Pablo Montero-Zamora; Claudia López-Madrigal; Linda G. Castillo; Miguel Ángel Cano; Kaveri Subrahmanyam; Brandy Piña-Watson; Pamela Regan; Lindsay S. Ham; Marissa K. Hanson; Charles R. Martinez Jr. – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined the role of personal identity vis-à-vis COVID-related outcomes among college students from seven U.S. campuses during spring/summer 2021. Participants: The present sample consisted of 1,688 students (74.5% female, age range 18-29). The sample was ethnically diverse, and 57.3% were first-generation students. Procedures:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Self Concept
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Dong, Xiaoxi; Huang, Fan; Shi, Xiangyun; Xu, Menglin; Yan, Zengyin; Türegün, Mehmet – SAGE Open, 2023
The study aims to examine the mediation effects of physical literacy and physical activity behavior in a relationship between psychological distress and life satisfaction among Chinese college students during the real-life Coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) circumstance. This study implemented a cross-sectional design, and 1,516 participants…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students
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Aydin, Fatih; Odaci, Hatice – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of counselling self-efficacy, trait anxiety and trait hope in life satisfaction of novice counsellor supervisees. The sample group consisted of 360 female, 199 male and 11 undergraduate counsellors who were unwilling to report gender. Data collection tools included the Personal Information…
Descriptors: Counselors, Self Efficacy, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns
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Luo, Ye; Watson, Joshua C.; Lenz, A. Stephen – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
This study provided preliminary evidence for a new Social Media Identity Distress Scale (SMIDS) using two subsamples of emerging adults (18-25 years of age) from Amazon Turk (each n = 373). The factor analysis revealed a single-factor scale explaining 72.9% of the variance in the items and supported a 20-item version of the original 66-item…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Social Media, Young Adults
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