Background: The University of Lubumbashi doesn't have the culture to evaluate the mental health and the humor's state of psychology's students who will be confronted with the multiple realities of the suffering patients with diverse psychiatric disorders, among whom in particular the disorders of the humor. Aims of the Study: The present study (i) measures the depression of students in psychology at University of Lubumbashi and (ii) analyzes the prevalence of gender and age to their depression. Instruments: Having made appeal to Beck Depression Inventory, we evaluate 60 first-year students of graduate in psychology who composing our sample, 30 women and 30 men from 18 to 23 years old. Results: It emerges from our investigations that 73.3% of students were depressive (5% of grave Depression and 1.67% of extreme Depression), with the depression's prevalence of men (80%) and of less old students (75%). Conclusion: The mental health of the students in psychology at University of Lubumbashi would thus be measured at least once during their academic program.
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