scholarly journals Relationships among High School Student-Athletes' Mental Health, Stressors, and Social Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaori Yamaguchi ◽  
Eriko Katagami ◽  
Ryoji Shinohara ◽  
Taishi Tsuji ◽  
Zentaro Yamagata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
High School ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
High School Student ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Other ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Athletic Activities

Objectives: The impact of the spread of COVID-19 on the mental health and its mitigating factors of high school athletes is not fully understood. The aims of this study were 1) to describe the psychological distress and stressors experienced by high school athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic and to elucidate the relationships between them and 2) to determine the relationship between psychological distress and social support. Methods: Participants of this cross-sectional study were recruited from public high schools in East Japan. We conducted either an online or paper-based questionnaire survey from July 12 to 31, 2020, and used data collected from 3017 high school student athletes (valid response rate: 88.7%) for the analyses. We evaluated psychological distress (K6 ≥10), stressors to athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic (SAC-19), and perceived social support from others. Logistic regression analysis was used to calculate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for developing psychological distress. Results: Among the participants, 764 (25.3%) experienced psychological distress. Among the five factors extracted from the SAC-19, self-restraint requests (OR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.01–1.04), pressure from the surrounding environment (OR = 1.15, 95% CI: 1.12–1.18), and difficulties in maintaining athletic activities (OR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.12–1.21) increased the risk of psychological distress. On the other hand, participants who were satisfied with the support from family members (OR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.67–0.90), teammates (the same grade) (OR = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.67–0.98), and coaches and instructors (OR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.65–0.91) showed lower psychological distress. Conclusions: During the COVID-19 pandemic, high school athletes experienced more psychological distress than usual. Stressors such as self-restraint requests, pressure from the surrounding environment, and difficulties in maintaining athletic activities increased the risk. On the other hand, social support from family members, teammates (the same grade), and coaches and instructors can help alleviate these stressors.

scholarly journals Personal Analytics Explorations to Support Youth Learning

2018 ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High School ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
High School Student ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Personalized Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Walking Behavior

While personalized learning environments often include systems that automatically adapt to inferred learner needs, other forms of personalized learning exist. One form involves the use of personal analytics in which the learner obtains and analyzes data about himself/herself. More known in informatics communities, there is potential for use of personal analytics for design of instruction. This chapter provides two cases of personal analytics learning explorations to demonstrate their range and potential. One case is of a high school student examining how sleep influences her mood. The other case is of a sixth-grade class of students examining how deviations from typical walking behavior change distributional shape in plotted step data. Both cases show how social support and direct experience with data correction are intimately involved in how youth can learn through personal analytics activities.

scholarly journals Coping with COVID-19: The Strategies Adapted by Pakistani Students to Overcome Implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1799
Author(s):  
Gul Muhammad Baloch ◽  
Kamilah Kamaludin ◽  
Karuthan Chinna ◽  
Sheela Sundarasen ◽  
Mohammad Nurunnabi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
University Policies ◽  
One Year

COVID-19 has speedily immersed the globe with 72+ million cases and 1.64 million deaths, in a span of around one year, disturbing and deteriorating almost every sphere of life. This study investigates how students in Pakistan have coped with the COVID-19. Zung’s self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) was used for measuring anxiety and the coping strategies were measured on four strategies i.e., seeking social support, humanitarian, acceptance, and mental disengagement. Among 494 respondents, 61% were females and 77.3% of the students were in the age group of 19–25 years. The study findings indicate that approximately 41 percent of students are experiencing some level of anxiety, including 16% with severe to extreme levels. Seeking social support seemed to be the least preferred coping strategy and that female students seek social support, humanitarian, and acceptance coping strategies more than males. Students used both emotion-based and problem-based coping strategies. The variables of gender, age, ethnicity, level and type of study, and living arrangement of the students were associated with usage of coping strategies. Findings showing that students do not prefer to seek social support. The study outcomes will provide basic data for university policies in Pakistan and the other countries with same cultural contexts to design and place better mental health provisions for students.

Roles of Psychological Distress and Social Support in the Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Perceived Needs for Mental Health Care

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110063
Author(s):  
Tingting Gao ◽  
Songli Mei ◽  
Muzi Li ◽  
Carl D’ Arcy ◽  
Xiangfei Meng
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Childhood maltreatment is a major public health issue worldwide. It increases a range of health-risk behaviors, psychological and physical problems, which are associated with an increased need for mental health services in adulthood. Identification of mediating factors in the relationship between maltreatment and seeking mental health care may help attenuate the negative consequences of childhood maltreatment and promote more appropriate treatment. This study aims to examine whether the relationship between childhood maltreatment and perceived need for mental health care is mediated by psychological distress and/or moderated by social support. Data from the Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health 2012 are analyzed. A total of 8,993 participants, who had complete information on childhood maltreatment and diagnoses of mental disorders or psychological distress, are included in this study. Structural equation modeling and the PROCESS macro were used to identify relationships among childhood maltreatment, perceived needs for mental health care, and psychological distress. Hierarchical linear regression was then used to verify the moderated mediation model. We found that psychological distress partially mediated the effect of childhood maltreatment on perceived needs for mental health care in adulthood. Social support played an important role in terms of moderating the relationship between maltreatment and perceived needs for care. For those with a history of childhood maltreatment, those who perceived a low level of social support were more likely to have higher levels of psychological distress and perceived need for mental health care. This is the first study to identify the separate and combined roles of psychological distress and social support in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and perceived need for mental health care. Selective prevention strategies should focus on social support to improve mental health services among people with a history of childhood maltreatment.

How Relationship Satisfaction Influences Post-Pandemic COVID-19 Anxiety: A Four-Wave Study in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingyi Ou ◽  
yunhanqi ◽  
Ke Zhang ◽  
Yuexiao Du ◽  
Yihang He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
The Social

The social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic exerts lasing impacts on people’s mental health. However, whether and how people’s pre-existing positive social relationships can serve as stable reserves to alleviate people psychological distress following the disaster remains unknown. To address the question, the current study examined whether pre-pandemic relationship satisfaction would predict post-pandemic COVID-19 anxiety through middle-pandemic perceived social support and/or gratitude using four-wave data in China (N = 222, 54.50% female, Mage = 31.53, SD = 8.17). Results showed that people’s COVID-19 anxiety decreased from the peak to the trough pandemic stage; perceived social support increased markedly from the pre-pandemic to the peak and remained stable afterwards, while relationship satisfaction remained unchanged throughout. Further, it was middle-pandemic perceived social support, but not gratitude, mediated the association between pre-pandemic relationship satisfaction and post-pandemic COVID-19 anxiety, indicating perceived social support played a more crucial role than gratitude in this process. Last, it is suggested to distinguish perceived social support from gratitude as two different components of social interactions.

Young construction workers: substance use, mental health, and workplace psychosocial factors

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Pidd ◽  
Vinita Duraisingam ◽  
Ann Roche ◽  
Allan Trifonoff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Young Australian workers are at elevated risk of mental health and alcohol and other drug related problems. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between alcohol and drug (AOD) use, psychological wellbeing, and the workplace psychosocial environment among young apprentices in the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey of a cohort of 169 construction industry apprentices in their first year of training was undertaken. The survey included measures of psychological distress (K10), quantity/frequency measures of alcohol and illicit drug use, and workplace psychosocial factors. Findings Construction industry apprentices are at elevated risk of AOD related harm and poor mental health. Levels of psychological distress and substance use were substantially higher than age/gender equivalent Australian population norms. Job stress, workplace bullying, and general social support accounted for 38.2 per cent of the variance in psychological distress. General social support moderated the effects of job stress and bullying on psychological distress. Substance use was not associated with psychological distress. However, workplace social support accounted for 2.1 per cent of the variance in AUDIT-C scores, and 2.0 per cent of the variance in cannabis use. Workplace bullying explained 2.4 per cent of the variance in meth/amphetamine use. Practical implications Construction trades apprentices are a high-risk group for harmful substance use and poor mental health. Study results indicate that psychosocial wellbeing interventions are warranted as a harm reduction strategy. Originality/value This is the first study of its kind to describe a cohort of Australian construction trade apprentices in terms of their substance use and psychological wellbeing. The study shows workplace psychosocial factors may predict young workers psychological wellbeing.

scholarly journals Feeling emotions for others that they don’t feel: Agency appraisals and vicarious anger

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Daniel Wondra
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Student ◽  
The Other ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
The Difference

How do people feel emotions for someone else? This has been studied asempathy—feeling the same emotion that someone else feels. But people also feel emotions for someone else that the other person doesn’t feel, such as feeling angry for someone who is sad. We use appraisal theories to predict that people feel an emotion for someone else when they appraise that person’s situation differently. According to appraisal theories, people react to misfortunes with anger if they are caused by another person, but not if the cause is impersonal, and we predicted that this would also be true in feeling emotions for another person, regardless of what the other person feels. In two studies, subjects learned about a disadvantaged high school student who applied to college and was rejected from every school. Subjects felt angrier when they learned that the student’s friend caused the bad outcome than when the student made a well-intentioned mistake, but they did not think the student felt angry. The difference in subjects’ anger was mediated by changes in appraisals of agency. The student believed the rejections were caused by bad circumstances and felt sad in both conditions. The results extend research on empathy and other vicarious emotional experiences by supporting appraisal as a process that is involved in feeling emotions for other people.

scholarly journals Trends in selected socio-economic determinants of depression in Italy, 2013 through 2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Acuti Martellucci ◽  
V Montagna ◽  
G Acquaviva ◽  
A Masiero ◽  
L Biardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
High School ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Poor Social Support ◽  
Predictors Of Depression

Abstract Background In Italy, in 2015 suicide rate was 6.5/100,000 inhabitants, while in 2017 depressive disorders were estimated to represent 2.3% of total DALYs. The indicator for monitoring mental health is the suicide rate, but surveys such as the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) of 2015 have identified several predictors of depression. We aim to assess trends in factors associated to depression in Italy, from 2013 to 2017. Methods Data from the Aspects of Daily Living survey (AVQ) carried out by the Italian Statistics Institute, from years 2013 to 2017, were used in this analysis. Investigated factors were those identified as predictors of depression in Italy according to the EHIS 2015: (1) education until middle high school and (2) high school, (3) poor social support (single-person households without friends, neighbours, or relatives to count on), (4) unemployment, (5) chronic disease, (6) moderate limitations of daily activity due to poor health, and (7) severe limitations. We calculated the prevalence of these factors, and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI), by sex and year. Results The prevalence of poor social support rose, differing significantly in men between 1.5% (95% CI 1.3% - 1.8%) in 2013 and 2.1% (95% CI 1.9% - 2.3%) in 2017. Unemployment decreased in men, from 12.7% (95% CI 12.0% - 13.4%) to 10.4% (95% CI 10.0% - 10.8%), whereas chronic diseases and moderate limitations grew significantly in both sexes, at respectively 24.6% (95% CI 24.0% - 25.2%) and 16.1% (95% CI 15.6% - 16.6%) for men, and 29.0% (95% CI 28.4% - 29.6%) and 19.4% (95% CI 18.9% - 19.9%) for women in 2017. Conclusions The growing proportions, in Italy, of people with poor social support, chronic diseases, and moderate limitations of daily activities, suggest that health care programming at the national level should prepare for a rising burden of mental disease in these groups, and take into account measures to promote well-being. Key messages Among factors associated with depression, poor social support, chronic diseases, and moderate physical limitations due to disease showed a growing trend in Italy from 2013 to 2017. The Italian yearly AVQ survey investigates predictors of mental disease, particularly depression, and could provide early data for effective health care programming and mental health promotion.

scholarly journals Psychological Distress during Ovarian Cancer Treatment: Improving Quality by Examining Patient Problems and Advanced Practice Nursing Interventions

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Kline O'Sullivan ◽  
Kathryn H. Bowles ◽  
Sangchoon Jeon ◽  
Elizabeth Ercolano ◽  
Ruth McCorkle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
The Other ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Mental Health Intervention ◽  
High Distress

Background/Significance. Ovarian cancer patients are prone to psychological distress. The clinical significance and best practices for distress among this population are poorly understood.Method. Secondary analysis of research records from a six month randomized control trial included 32 women with primary ovarian cancer. All received 18 advanced practice nurse (APN) visits over six months. Three sub-samples were determined by distress level (high/low) and mental health service consent for high distress. Demographic, clinical factors, patient problems and APN interventions obtained through content analysis and categorized via the Omaha System were compared.Results. Clinically-significant psychiatric conditions were identified in 8/18 (44%) high distress subjects consenting to mental health intervention. High distress subjects who refused mental health intervention had more income and housing problems than the other subjects, received the fewest interventions at baseline, and progressively more throughout the study, exceeding the other sub-samples by study completion.Conclusions. Highly-distressed women not psychologically ready to work through emotional consequences of cancer at treatment onset may obtain support from APNs to manage cancer problems as they arise. Additional studies may identify best practices for all highly-distressed women with cancer, particularly those who do not accept mental health services for distress, but suffer from its effects.

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