Depressive Symptoms and Coping Strategies Among Indian University Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manisha Sawhney ◽  
Seth Kunen ◽  
Ashum Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Depressive Symptom ◽  
University Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Depression Score ◽  
Avoidant Coping ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Symptom Group ◽  
And Coping

Depression is now the leading cause of disability worldwide, and globally more than 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression. Depression, despite its major health consequences, frequently goes unnoticed among university students, since their lives are often filled with symptoms normally associated with depression (e.g., loss of sleep, low energy, anxiety, and sadness). Successful adaptation to depression depends on the use of adequate coping strategies. The extent to which university students in India with high and low levels of depressive symptoms use adequate or inadequate coping strategies has not been evaluated. Based on the Center for Epidemiological Scale for Depression score, students were assigned to either the high depressive symptoms or the low depressive symptoms group. We used the Coping Response Inventory-Adult to determine the dominant coping strategies used by the two depressive symptoms groups. The high depressive symptom group resorted to more avoidant coping strategies than the low depressive symptom group, and women were more likely to use avoidant coping strategies than men.

scholarly journals Acculturative Stress among Arab Students in Israel: The Roles of Sense of Coherence and Coping Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Abu-Kaf ◽  
Enas Khalaf
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Acculturative Stress ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Avoidant Coping ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Arab Students ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Academic Year

Background: In Israeli colleges and universities, many Arab students experience acculturative stress. Such stress arises from the need to learn new cultural rules, manage the overarching conflict inherent in maintaining elements of their culture of origin (i.e., Arab culture) while incorporating elements of the host culture (i.e., Jewish academic culture), and deal with experiences of prejudice and discrimination present in the host culture. Methods: This study investigated the association between acculturative stress and depressive symptoms among 170 Arab undergraduates from northern and central Israel. It also explored the roles of sense of coherence and coping strategies in the relationship between acculturative stress and depressive symptoms. Participants completed questionnaires on acculturative stress, depressive symptoms, sense of coherence, coping strategies, and demographics. Results: The findings reveal gender differences in the use of different coping strategies and in levels of depressive symptoms. However, academic-year differences were found only in levels of sense of coherence and depressive symptoms. Specifically, female students expressed higher levels of both active and avoidant coping. Moreover, female students and those in their first and second years of university studies reported higher levels of depressive symptoms. Among the male students, acculturative stress was related to depressive symptoms indirectly via sense of coherence and active coping. In contrast, among the female students, acculturative stress was related to depressive symptoms both directly and indirectly via sense of coherence and avoidant coping. Among first- and second-year students, acculturative stress was related to depressive symptoms indirectly via sense of coherence and avoidant coping. However, among third- and fourth-year students, acculturative stress was related to depressive symptoms both directly and indirectly via sense of coherence. Conclusions: This article underscores the significance of gender and academic-year differences in pathways involving acculturative stress.

scholarly journals The trajectories of depressive symptoms among working adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of the InHamilton COVID-19 study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Joshi ◽  
Andrea Gonzalez ◽  
Lauren Griffith ◽  
Laura Duncan ◽  
Harriet MacMillan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Depressive Symptom ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Background Longitudinal studies examining the impact of changes in COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors and experiences, and coping styles on the mental health trajectory of employed individuals during the lockdown are limited. The study examined the mental health trajectories of a sample of employed adults in Hamilton, Ontario during the initial lockdown and after the re-opening following the first wave in Canada. Further, this study also identified the pandemic-related stressors and coping strategies associated with changes in depressive symptoms in employed adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods The InHamilton COVID-19 longitudinal study involved 579 employees aged 22–88 years from a large public university in an urban area of Hamilton, Ontario at baseline (April 2020). Participants were followed monthly with 6 waves of data collected between April and November 2020. A growth mixture modeling approach was used to identify distinct groups of adults who followed a similar pattern of depressive symptoms over time and to describe the longitudinal change in the outcome within and among the identified sub-groups. Results Our results showed two distinct trajectories of change with 66.2% of participants displaying low-consistent patterns of depressive symptoms, and 33.8% of participants displaying high-increasing depressive symptom patterns. COVID-19 pandemic-related experiences including health concerns, caregiving burden, and lack of access to resources were associated with worsening of the depressive symptom trajectories. Frequent use of dysfunctional coping strategies and less frequent use of emotion-focused coping strategies were associated with the high and increasing depressive symptom pattern. Conclusions The negative mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are specific to subgroups within the population and stressors may persist and worsen over time. Providing access to evidence-informed approaches that foster adaptive coping, alleviate the depressive symptoms, and promote the mental health of working adults is critical.

scholarly journals Psychological Impairment and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Students in Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Muhammad Salman ◽  
Noman Asif ◽  
Zia Ul Mustafa ◽  
Tahir Mehmood Khan ◽  
Naureen Shehzadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Depression Score ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Brief Cope ◽  
Significant Impairment ◽  
Psychological Impairment ◽  
And Coping

Abstract High levels of stress are expected when crises affect people’s lives. Therefore, this web-based, cross-sectional study was conducted among university students from Pakistan to investigate the psychological impairment and coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic. Google forms were used to disseminate the online questionnaire to assess anxiety (Generalized Anxiety disorder-7), depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) and the coping strategies (Brief-COPE). A total of 1134 responses (age 21.7±3.5 years) were included. The frequency of students having moderate-severe anxiety and depression (score ≥ 10) were ≍ 34% and 45%, respectively. The respondents’ aged ≥ 31 years had significantly lower depression score than those ≤ 20 years (p = 0.047). Males had significantly less anxiety (6.62 ± 5.70 vs 7.84 ± 5.60, p = 0.001) and depression (8.73 ± 6.84 vs 9.71 ± 7.06, p = 0.031) scores. Those having family member, friend or acquaintances infected with disease had significantly higher anxiety score (8.89 ± 5.74 vs 7.09 ± 5.56, p < 0.001). Regarding coping strategies, majority of respondents were found to have adopted religious/spiritual coping (6.45 ± 1.68) followed by acceptance (5.58 ± 1.65), self-distraction (4.97 ± 1.61) and active coping (4.81 ± 1.57). In conclusion, COVID-19 cause significant impairment on mental health of the students. The most frequent coping strategy adopted by students were religious/spiritual and acceptance coping. During epidemics mental health of students should not be neglected.

Impact of maltreatment on depressive symptoms in young male adults: The mediating and moderating role of cortisol stress response and coping strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Y. Cantave ◽  
Stephanie Langevin ◽  
Marie-France Marin ◽  
Mara Brendgen ◽  
Sonia Lupien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Young Male ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals Role of Patient Coping Strategies in Understanding the Effects of Early Palliative Care on Quality of Life and Mood

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Greer ◽  
Jamie M. Jacobs ◽  
Areej El-Jawahri ◽  
Ryan D. Nipp ◽  
Emily R. Gallagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Avoidant Coping ◽  
Intervention Effects ◽  
Early Palliative Care ◽  
Patient Reported

Purpose The early integration of oncology and palliative care (EIPC) improves quality of life (QOL) and mood for patients with advanced cancer. However, the mechanisms by which EIPC benefits these outcomes remain unclear. We therefore examined whether EIPC improved patients’ coping strategies and if changes in coping accounted for intervention effects on QOL and depressive symptoms. Patients and Methods For this secondary analysis of an EIPC trial, we examined data from 350 patients with newly diagnosed incurable lung or GI cancer. Participants completed assessments of QOL (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–General), depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire–9), and coping (Brief COPE) at baseline and 24 weeks. We used linear regression to test intervention effects on use of coping strategies and mediation regression models with bias-corrected bootstrapping to examine whether improvements in coping mediated the effects of early palliative care on patient-reported outcomes. Results Compared with usual oncology care, EIPC significantly increased patient use of approach-oriented coping strategies ( B = 1.09; SE = 0.44; P = .01) and slightly reduced use of avoidant strategies ( B = −0.44; SE = 0.23; P = .06) from baseline to 24 weeks. Also, the increased use of approach-oriented coping and reduction in avoidant coping were associated with higher QOL and lower depressive symptoms at 24 weeks. The positive changes in approach-oriented coping, but not avoidant coping, significantly mediated the effects of EIPC on QOL (indirect effect, 1.27; 95% CI, 0.33 to 2.86) and depressive symptoms (indirect effect, −0.39; 95% CI, −0.87 to −0.08). Conclusion Patients with incurable cancer who received EIPC showed increased use of approach-oriented coping, which was associated with higher QOL and reduced depressive symptoms. Palliative care may improve these outcomes by providing patients with the skills to cope effectively with life-threatening illness.

Effectiveness of Cognitive-behavioral Intervention on Depressive Symptomatology, Stress and Coping Strategies among Jordanian University Students

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hamdan-Mansour
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Behavioral Intervention ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention ◽  
Intervention Impact ◽  
And Coping

The study examined the effectiveness of a group- administered cognitive behavioral intervention (CBT) with depressed university students in Jordan. 84 university students were recruited and assigned randomly to control and intervention groups. Intervention impact was assessed on measures of depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and coping strategies at three times points; baseline, postintervention, 3- months postintervention. Overall, using CBT showed a significant improvement in the used measures. At postintervention, students had lower scores on perceived stress, depression, and avoidance coping and higher scores in approach coping. The findings are discussed in terms of treatment implications and recommendations for use at academic settings.

Early menarche, depressive symptoms, and coping strategies

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 905-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Alcalá-Herrera ◽  
Ma. Luisa Marván
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Early Menarche ◽  
And Coping
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