Anxiety and Well-Being Among Students in a Psychoeducation Program: The Mediating Role of Identity

Marcotte, Julie; Lévesque, Geneviève

doi:10.1353/csd.2018.0006

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“…Therefore, exercise can indirectly improve academic performance by reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms. Given psychological distress can lead to student drop-out (Marcotte & Lévesque, 2018), exercise can also facilitate degree completion by providing a buffer against university drop-out. Furthermore, the notable demand for accessibility services among students with anxiety disorders (Sokal, 2016) suggests that exercise can reduce students' need for these services and the negative connotations (i.e., fear of resentment from peers, negative stigma) that accompany its use.…”

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The UWorkItOut UWin Program: Improving University Students’ Psychological Distress through Physical Activity

Muir

Munroe‐Chandler

Loughead

et al. 2020

IJKSS

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Background: The predominance of mental health concerns among post-secondary students has amplified the demand for campus counselling services. Although exercise is positively linked to mental health, campus interventions that integrate supervised exercise and exercise counselling are limited. Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of the UWorkItOut UWin program on students’ psychological distress. Methods: The UWorkItOut UWin program is a 6-week exercise training and counselling intervention offered to low risk, sedentary students seeking counselling services at a mid-sized Canadian University. The participants included 49 (male, n = 16; female, n = 32; gender invariant, n = 1) university students (71% undergraduate) with a mean age of 23.08 years (SD = 4.97). Students completed one unsupervised (60 minutes) and two supervised (45 mins each) exercise training sessions per week. Students also attended weekly individual exercise counselling sessions (30 minutes each). The Mental Health Inventory-38 (MHI-38) was used to measure changes in the three subscales of psychological distress: 1) anxiety, 2) depression, and 3) loss of emotional control. Results: Paired samples t tests demonstrated significant decreases in anxiety and depression scores from pre-to post-intervention (ps < .05). No significant change was found for loss of emotional control from pre-to post-intervention (p > .05). Conclusion: The findings provide evidence for the effect of exercise in reducing university students’ psychological distress. Consequently, exercise is an additional mental health service for this population, alleviating strain on campus counselling services.

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The UWorkItOut UWin Program: Improving University Students’ Psychological Distress through Physical Activity

Muir

Munroe‐Chandler

Loughead

et al. 2020

IJKSS

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“…Anxiety rates have significantly increased in recent years, specifically in post-secondary student populations (Glauser, 2017;Marcotte & Lévesque, 2018). The emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2004) stage of life, when most students pursue post-secondary education, is correlated with the age of peak onset for mental health problems, including anxiety (Reavley & Jorm, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The implications of anxiety are both a critical public health and socioeconomic issue that warrant further scientific examination (Marcotte & Lévesque, 2018), as anxiety is associated with several demographic (Farrer et al, 2016), psychological (Goswami et al, 2012), behavioural (Rose et al, 2015), social (Corona et al, 2017), financial (Eisenberg et al, 2007), and physical health implications (Adams et al, 2008) influencing post-secondary students' quality of life (Barrera & Norton, 2009). In addition to these adverse effects, there is an extensive body of literature documenting the effects of anxiety impairing cognitive performance.…”

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“…Larson et al (2016) argue student health and academic success are inextricably related, yet most studies use bivariate analyses to examine the relationship among these concepts. For instance, extensive research has identified the risk factors contributing to and the protective factors preventing against anxiety in post-secondary students (e.g., Esmaeelzadeh et al, 2018;Marcotte & Lévesque, 2018), as well as the factors impacting academic performance (Brown et al, 2008;Chemers et al, 2001;Hartmann & Prichard, 2018), individually.…”

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Risk and protective factors for anxiety impacting academic performance in post-secondary students

Lisnyj

Russell²,

Papadopoulos

2020

CJHE

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This survey study measured the association between risk and protective factors of anxiety and its implications on the academic performance of 1,053 students at a four-year, public post-secondary institution in southwestern Ontario. Logistic regression analyses revealed 13 significant variables at the univariable level, while the multivariable model yielded seven significant factors. Students who felt hopeless significantly increased their odds of reporting anxiety adversely affecting their academic performance, while being able to manage daily responsibilities was the only protective factor against anxiety impacting students’ educational attainment. By planning, designing, and implementing proactive programs focusing on thesepredictor variables, such interventions can equip students against the debilitative influence of anxiety on their academic success.

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“…Mental health problems are a social phenomenon that requires attention in many societies [33]. Anxiety is an aspect of a college student's mental health.…”

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Students Anxiety Experiences in Higher Education Institutions

AlKandari¹

2021

Anxiety Disorders - The New Achievements

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Anxiety and Well-Being Among Students in a Psychoeducation Program: The Mediating Role of Identity

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The UWorkItOut UWin Program: Improving University Students’ Psychological Distress through Physical Activity

The UWorkItOut UWin Program: Improving University Students’ Psychological Distress through Physical Activity

Risk and protective factors for anxiety impacting academic performance in post-secondary students

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