最后一年的大学生心理健康和获得支持,因为他们准备毕业
Megan J Magier1, Madelyn Law1, Sarah Pennisi2
1Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada.
Cogent mental health
|November 20, 2025
概括
接近毕业的大学生面临心理健康挑战,性/性别多元化的学生报告了更多的抑郁症状. 财务压力会影响焦虑和抑郁,这凸显了在过渡期间需要量身定制的支持.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 高等教育研究 高等教育研究
背景情况:
- 有限的研究存在于中学毕业生在大学的过渡期间的心理健康.
- 现有的研究往往忽视了不同学生群体面临的心理健康挑战.
- 了解这些挑战对于开发有效的支持系统至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 检查心理健康,并支持最后一年的本科生进入.
- 识别心理健康结果的差异,并根据社会人口统计学因素支持获取.
- 探索障碍,以支持获得和想要的心理健康服务.
主要方法:
- 来自加拿大一所大学 (2021-2022) 最后一年的本科生收集的调查数据.
- 包括千平方和线性回归模型在内的统计分析.
- 对关于支持障碍和需求的开放问题进行定性分析.
主要成果:
- 性/性别多元化的学生报告了较高的抑郁症状,与cisgender异性恋学生相比.
- 较低的抑郁和焦虑分数与缺乏压力重重的童年或财务状况有关.
- 校外正式支持比校内支持更频繁地获得.
- 在性别/性取向,财务压力,年龄和种族/族裔之间观察到支持获取的显著差异.
- 服务的可用性和安排是获得校园心理健康服务的主要障碍.
- 财务问题是一个重大挑战,也是希望获得支持的领域.
结论:
- 心理健康支持需要在发展方面量身定制,以应对大学毕业生面临的独特挑战.
- 解决财务压力和改善校园心理健康服务的可访问性至关重要.
- 进一步的研究应该探索在这个过渡时期为各种学生子组提供具体干预措施.
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