Latent profiles of stress and their relationships with depression and problematic Internet use among college freshmen

Abstract

As noted in previously published literature, college students frequently experience academic stress, financial stress, and the stresses caused by intimate, peer, and parent–adolescent relationships. The present study uses latent profile analysis to identify stress profiles based on the aforementioned five stressors among 430 college freshmen. Thereafter, we compare the levels of depression and problematic Internet use (PIU) among the different profile groups and investigate whether background variables could predict each latent stress group. Three latent groups were labelled as follows: Ordinary (n = 257, 59.77%); all moderate‐high (n = 98, 22.79%); and college‐life moderate‐high (n = 75, 17.44%). Compared with the ordinary group, the all moderate‐high and college‐life moderate‐high groups displayed significantly higher levels of depression. Moreover, the all moderate‐high group had a severer level of PIU than the college‐life moderate‐high and ordinary groups. Interestingly, males and students who were dating were more likely to fall under the all moderate‐high group than the college‐life moderate‐high group; but students who were more concerned with their academic performance were more likely to fall under the college‐life moderate‐high group than the all moderate‐high group. These findings have important implications for college educators and school counsellors with regard to developing appropriate interventions as required.

Student Profile of a Brazilian Public Dental School

“…According to the results, 76.1% of students were women (Table I), which was similar to the percentage reported by Orsini et al in 2018 (63%) [15], but not the percentage reported by AlQahtani et al (2018), who reported 73.1% men [16]. The difference in male to female proportion influenced learning style preferences [15], empathy and stress levels [11,[17][18][19][20][21], and vulnerability to burnouts [6,22]. Being married also heightened the sensitivity of students to stressful experiences [23][24].…”

Stimulating Intrinsic Motivation in Millennial Students: A New Generation, a New Approach

“…Moreover, research studies in the United States seem to indicate that females students, as compared to their male counterparts, appear to be more vulnerable to burnouts (Abeysekera and Dawson, ; Luthar, ; Yan et al, ; McLuckie et al, ). This has been proposed to be due to a greater propensity of females to internalize depressive feelings (Delany et al, ; Kenney et al, ) and experience increased generalized anxiety (Kessler, ; Dyrbye et al, ; Liao et al, ; Dyrbye et al, ).…”

“…It is interesting that even within the pre‐health care student community, female students have been observed to be more predisposed to developing stress as compared to males (Pritchard et al, ; Garett et al, ; Mortier et al, ). This trend is possibly reflected in the increased propensity for burnouts in female students in health care programs, as compared to males (Kessler, ; Dyrbye et al, ; Delany et al, ; Kenney et al, ; Liao et al, ).…”

Patologías asociadas al uso problemático de internet. Una revisión sistemática y metaanálisis en WOS y Scopus

“…La depresión se alza como la patología más estudiada y con mayor vinculación con el UPI, siendo una de las principales consecuencias del abuso de internet. Así pues, ha sido estudiada por distintos autores a lo largo de los últimos años (Lee y Stapinski, 2012;Thomée, Härenstam y Hagberg, 2012;Derbyshire et al, 2013;Durak y Şenol-Durak, 2013;Gámez-Guadix et al, 2013;Park et al, 2013;Bozkurt et al, 2013;Bener y Bhugra, 2013;Yau, Potenza y White, 2013;Bozoglan, Demirer y Sahin, 2014;Gámez-Guadix, 2014;Tokunaga, 2014;Özdemir, Kuzucu y Ak, 2014;Demirci, Akgönül y Akpinar, 2015;Fernández-Villa et al, 2015;Moreno, Jelenchick y Breland, 2015;Hricová, Paulisová y Orosová, 2016;Truzoli et al, 2016;Alpaslan et al, 2016;Chen y Lin, 2016;Tan et al, 2016;Ivezaj et al, 2017;Dutta y Yen, 2017;Laconi et al, 2017;Odaci y Çikrikci, 2017aOdaci y Çikrikci, , 2017bLi et al, 2017;De Vries et al, 2018;Kitazawa et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2018;Liao, Chen y Lin, 2018;Park et al, 2018;El Asam, Samara y Terry, 2019;Grover et al, 2019;Kojima et al, 2019).…”

“…La patología estrés ha sido estudiada por distintos trabajos que lo asocian con un UPI (Thomée, Härenstam y Hagberg, 2012;Derbyshire et al, 2013;Park, 2014;Bibbey et al, 2015;Dutta y Yen, 2017;Odaci y Çikrikci, 2017aOdaci y Çikrikci, , 2017bMoretta y Buodo, 2018;Liao, Chen y Lin, 2018;Grover et al, 2019). En cuanto a los instrumentos de recogida de datos, destaca Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (70 %), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), The Academic Expectations Stress Inventory (AESI) (10 %).…”