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Download full textCornett, Allyson – Trellis Company, 2023
College students are particularly vulnerable to mental health challenges that can significantly impede their academic performance, social lives, and cognitive abilities. While mental and emotional health concerns have long been present on college campuses, research suggests certain disorders and behaviors have worsened since the onset of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Mental Health, Student Surveys, Depression (Psychology)
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Direct linkAmarachi N. Abanobi; Sarah Itacy; Chad M. Coleman; Bernard L. Harlow – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objectives: Explore associations between eating disorders (EDs) and sleep duration and the impact of depression symptoms (DSs) in American college students. Participants: College students from 2018 to 2019 Healthy Minds Study. Methods: Multivariate logistic regression evaluated associations between EDs (bulimia, anorexia, binge eating [BED]) and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Sleep, Eating Disorders, College Students
Kristy Keefe; Ashley M. Griffith; Melanie D. Hetzel-Riggin; Cole Jensen – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2025
Recent focus on the unique mental health needs of transgender and genderqueer (TGQ) individuals has shown an increased risk for mental health disorders, trauma, exposure, and suicide. Initial research highlights that TGQ college students have higher rates of psychological distress, trauma, and suicidal behaviors compared to cisgender peers, though…
Descriptors: College Students, Transgender People, LGBTQ People, Mental Disorders
Evan Alexander Iliakis; Sara Rose Masland – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Suh et al (2019) found that treatments for perfectionism, even online, reduce perfectionism and concomitant psychopathology. This meta-analysis investigated the efficacy of Internet interventions and psychotherapeutic interventions for perfectionism as potential tools for overburdened college counseling centers where perfectionism is…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intervention, Psychotherapy, School Counseling
Anastasia J. Bullock; Edie M. Goldbacher – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Emotional eating is prevalent among college women. Deficits in interoceptive awareness, or the ability to perceive and identify internal sensations, are associated with emotional eating. Separately examining the specific components of interoceptive awareness, appetite and emotional awareness, in relation to emotional eating may improve…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Eating Habits, College Students, Females
Doris Iarovici – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
In "Coping on Campus," Doris Iarovici, MD, discusses students' lifestyle issues and psychiatric concerns using case vignettes to explore a variety of interventions related to substance abuse, relationship difficulties, eating disorders, sleep issues, depression and anxiety, and perfectionism. Included is a guide to making emergency…
Descriptors: College Students, Life Style, Mental Health, Intervention
Gloria Mónica Martínez-Aguilar; Martha Elba Mota Barragán; Yessica Mendiola García; Glenda Jazmin Luna Gonzalez; Paula Cristina Rivera Puentes – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
Since the international declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the life of the world population has had significant repercussions in all areas, mainly in health. Also, there have been a large number of changes in people's lives, which have modified routines, relationships, habits, family economy, work environments and in the population of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Characteristics, Hispanic American Students, COVID-19
Han, GiBaeg; Wang, Chiachih D. C.; Jin, Ling; Bismar, Danna – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2022
This cross-cultural comparison study examined the direct and indirect effects (via several cognitive-affective pathways) of insecure attachment on bulimic behaviors and explored cultural similarities and differences in all pathways of the indirect effect model between female university students from the U.S. and Korea. Our findings from the two…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Attachment Behavior, Cultural Differences, Females
Kerr-Gaffney, Jess; Jones, Emily; Mason, Luke; Hayward, Hannah; Murphy, Declan; Loth, Eva; Tchanturia, Kate – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Research suggests a relationship between anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorder. The aim of the current study was to examine social attention in anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorder compared with age- and sex-matched typically developing groups, and to examine whether lowered social motivation could explain reductions in social…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Influences, Attention
Claire Abela; Angela Abela; Liberato Camilleri – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2024
This study investigated vocational students' mental health by identifying the prevalence of depression, stress, anxiety, eating disorders and associated risk and protective factors among 16- to 18-year-old students attending a vocational college in Malta. Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) was also investigated. A sample of 422 students…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Quality of Life, Late Adolescents
Brogan L. Barr; Virginia V. W. McIntosh; Eileen F. Britt; Jennifer Jordan; Janet D. Carter – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2024
Even when raters demonstrate agreement in the use of a measure, limited score variability or violation of often-ignored statistical assumptions can result in lower reliability estimates than intuitively expected. This article uses data drawn from two randomized controlled trials of schema therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Interrater Reliability, Reliability, Measurement Techniques
Liu, Jia Li; Wang, Cixin; Do, Kieu Anh; Bali, Diksha – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Contrary to the model minority myth, many Asian American youth experience mental health challenges. However, they are less likely to utilize school-based mental health services than their non-Asian American peers. A paucity of research addresses Asian American adolescents'…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Adolescents, Mental Health, Multiple Literacies
Mackay, Jessica; Nixon, Gillian M.; Lafferty, Antony R.; Ambler, Geoff; Kapur, Nitin; Bergman, Philip B.; Schofield, Cara; Seton, Chris; Tai, Andrew; Tham, Elaine; Vora, Komal; Crock, Patricia; Verge, Charles; Musthaffa, Yassmin; Blecher, Greg; Caudri, Daan; Leonard, Helen; Jacoby, Peter; Wilson, Andrew; Choong, Catherine S.; Downs, Jenny – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder characterised by neurodevelopmental delays, hyperphagia, difficulties with social communication and challenging behaviours. Individuals require intensive supervision from caregivers which may negatively affect caregiver quality of life. This study used data collected in the Australasian PWS…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Genetic Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Galvin, John; Richards, Gareth – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This study followed a pre-registered analysis plan with the aim to investigate whether autistic traits and self-compassion are correlated in autistic adults, and to test an indirect effect of autistic traits on anxiety/depression via self-compassion. We present the findings of an online survey of 456 participants (n = 228 autistic adults, n = 228…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Altruism, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Adults
Barnett, Alana; Edwards, Katie; Harper, Rebecca; Evans, Elizabeth; Alexander, Derina; Choudhary, Mohini; Richards, Gareth – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Previous studies have reported positive correlations between autistic traits and disordered eating, though it is unclear whether the association is moderated by sex/gender or whether it is independent of anxiety or depression. We present the findings of an online survey of 691 participants who completed the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), Hospital…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Eating Disorders
