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Children Now, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of schools shone a spotlight on the issue of student mental health. Rates of depression and anxiety among youth skyrocketed, resulting in an increase in emergency room visits related to youth mental health. While children and youth were reporting the need for behavioral health supports prior to the pandemic,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Student Needs
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Baur, Joshua – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between working at a campus community garden and student volunteers' wellbeing. Participants: 76 undergraduate students at a large urban university in the San Francisco Bay area. Methods: A Web-based survey was conducted. Using an email mailing list of current and former garden…
Descriptors: Gardening, Health Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Well Being
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Scott W. Plunkett; Gabriella A. Hinojosa; Olivya A. Reyes; Gary S. Katz – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
Depression is a common reason university students seek counseling. Various internal cognitive processes are risk factors for college students' depression (e.g., anxiety, stress level, inability to manage stressors, brooding rumination, and self-deprecating thoughts). We used dominance analyses to determine the relative contribution of each…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), College Students, Risk
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Serpas, Dylan G. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2023
Discrimination, as a psychosocial stressor functions as one pathway in reduced mental health among Hispanic/Latinx undergraduates. Intrinsic value orientation is associated with adaptive functioning and may protect from mental health symptoms. From a strengths-based perspective, this study examined intrinsic value orientation as a buffer against…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Mental Health, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Espree Foscolos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mental health is on the decline. At a community college in Southern California, 55% of students admit to suffering from anxiety, 42% have depression, and 16% have seriously considered or attempted suicide. However, less than a quarter have sought treatment due to the barriers of stigma, mental health literacy, and limited access to resources.…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Mental Health
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Yung, Shun Ting; Chen, Yaoyu; Zawadzki, Matthew J. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Changes in surroundings and social relationships may heighten feelings of loneliness, suggesting the need to measure as a state. This study tested whether loneliness fluctuates within and across days and the resultant associations with psychological distress. Further it tested familism as a moderator as endorsing this cultural value may…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Predictor 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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Serpas, Dylan G.; Ignacio, Daniel A. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2024
This study examined the association between COVID-19 psychological distress and mental health symptoms as moderated by social support among 107 Hispanic undergraduates at a large public Hispanic-Serving Institution in Southern California. Results indicated pandemic distress was positively, and social support was negatively, associated with mental…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Stress Variables
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Einat Waizbard-Bartov; Emilio Ferrer; Brianna Heath; Derek S Andrews; Sally Rogers; Connor M Kerns; Christine Wu Nordahl; Marjorie Solomon; David G Amaral – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Many autistic children experience changes in core symptom severity across middle childhood, when co-occurring mental health conditions emerge. We evaluated this relationship in 75 autistic children from 6 to 11 years old. Autism symptom severity change was evaluated for total autism symptoms using the autism diagnostic observation schedule…
Descriptors: Young Children, Early Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mental Health
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Contreras, Isaias M.; Novaco, Raymond W. – Journal of School Violence, 2023
Rumination about anger experiences prolongs anger arousal and increases the likelihood of aggression. School violence perpetrators have ruminated angrily. Research measures and personal accounts of anger rumination often contain revenge-planning as a subtheme, the relevance of which has received insufficient attention in accounting for aggressive…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Aggression, Violence, Life Satisfaction
Tiffany R. Tallackson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present study examined the effects of a mind-body intervention, often used to decrease symptoms of anxiety, on self-conceptual levels of university students. It was not known if, and to what extent, the combination of mindfulness meditation and group fitness influenced the self-esteem and self-regulation of undergraduate students who…
Descriptors: Student Welfare, Self Esteem, Self Management, Mental Health
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Balakrishnan, Bindu; Muthaiah, Vijaya Prakash Krishnan; Peters-Brinkerhoff, Cherie; Ganesan, Mohan – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Background: The mental health of Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT), Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT), and Doctorate of Occupation Therapy (OTD) students was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The investigators explored the impact of the pandemic on the students' mental health. Methods: The study included 90 students from the DPT, MOT, and OTD…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Graduate Students, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy
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Candelaria Garcia; Jeovanna Amador Ayala; Kate Diaz Roldan; Niloofar Bavarian – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We aimed to explore conversations about mental health difficulties by Reddit users who posted within college subreddits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Data were collected from the subreddits of 22 California campuses, representing 113,579 anonymous members. Using the following search terms, we retrieved 577 posts (i.e., 268…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Rith-Najarian, Leslie R.; Chorpita, Bruce F.; Gong-Guy, Elizabeth; Hammons, Hayley R.; Chavira, Denise A. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To examine the feasibility of a self-guided, Web-based program for universal prevention of anxiety and depression in university students. Participants: University students (n = 651) enrolled in the tested program (March, 2016). Methods: The program delivered eight weeks of mental health skills (e.g., behavioral activation, mindfulness).…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Prevention, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Jazmin Nicol Campos – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite the documented rise in stress and mental health concerns in college students, few educational studies explore how different types of stress (e.g., life events, chronic stress) affect psychological and academic outcomes (Cox et al., 2016; Smyth et al., 2008; Towbes & Cohen, 1996). This mixed-methods study tested the stress process model…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Anxiety, Outcomes of Education, Stress Variables
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