Many university students in Australia are young, and they experience a substantial amount of stressful and challenging situations in their academic life. In Australia, half of the population who have common mental illnesses have their first episode by age eighteen, and three quarters by the age of twenty-five (Kitchener, Jorm, & Kelly, 2017). These statistics show the importance of mental health in University life. According to Cvetkovski, Reavley, and Jorm’s (2012) research on Australian university students, they have a higher occurrence of moderate stress than non-academics. Moreover, the latest National Tertiary Student Wellbeing survey (NTSWS, 2016) conducted on seventy Australian universities concluded that the high levels of psychological …show more content…
Mental health can affect university students’ education, future occupation roles and personal life. It is a critical matter for university students to use effective coping strategies, such as proactive coping to prevent stressors and view them as chances for personal growth (Swinburne online, 2018). In this essay, it will be argued that the five-factor model of personality also knowns as the Big Five is related to proactive coping. This essay will critically evaluate all the research evidence collected to explain not only coping and proactive coping but also personality, especially how the five-factor model of personality relates to proactive coping among university students. The variety of stressors university students face in their academic life will be outlined. Finally, the significance of personality and its influence on proactive coping and coping among university students will be …show more content…
According to Straud, McNaughton-Casill and Fuhrman (2015) proactive coping converts any event, experience, or environmental stimulus that causes stress into personal growth. Therefore, students develop plans in advance to prevent and weaken challenges that arise from stressors. Likewise, preventative coping makes students gather resources to reduce negative consequences of a future event (Drummond & Brough, 2017, p.26) (as cited in Antoniou & Cooper, 2017). The proactive coping has achieved much attention by researchers since Aspinall and Taylor introduced it (1997) in the peer-reviewed article stating that proactive coping has many possible benefits including decreasing the impact of stressors and ability to stop entirely with proactive efforts. Due to which, the researchers started examining the proactive coping phenomena in depth to understand the cause of this behaviour and began to contemplate a proactive coping inventory instrument to measure future orientated coping. As a result, Greenglass, Schwarzer, Jakubiec, Fiksenbaum, and Taubert (1999) created a psychometric tool recognised as proactive coping inventory (PCI) to measure proactive coping. This scale contains seven scales and fifty-five items related to behaviour and cognition using the sample from
Close to six million Canadians live with mental illness; let alone the thousands that are undiagnosed. Mental illness has made big headlines in the news in the recent years. The people suffering from mental illness have been faced with discrimination a caused by a stigma towards them. Mental illness can be caused by many different factors whether they are psychological or environmental. Although only twenty percent of Canadians personally experience mental illness in their lifetime, it affects everyone in their lives. Many of the people suffering from mental illness live their lives in silence because of the stigma attached to the illness. They would rather nobody know about their condition than face the stigma and discrimination of the public. Society has come a long way from a hundred years ago when they would use trepanation. Trepanation is a primitive method used to heal head injuries; they truly believed that carving a hole in ones skull would release any mental injuries the patient had. A decade ago people suffering from mental illness were treated as if they were less than others. Now a days, people suffering from mental illness are not treated as poorly as before, they have larger support group than before, and society is more understanding of mental illness now. However, there is still much room for improvement.
Mental stability is one of the imperative aspects of human health and well-being. It not only affects the individual’s personal life but has an evident impact on the individual’s work, social, and family life. Nearly 4,000 Canadians die by suicide each year, reported in Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (2015). Unfortunately, the government health policies as well as the masses have not been very supportive towards creating a health system that sufficiently caters to the needs of people suffering from mental instability and mental disorders. Hence it becomes important to bring this issue into limelight as it has been adversely affecting our society.
Mental illness in Australia is prevalent in younger generations from age 19 to 25. The women are affected more than the men are. Mental health problems are not adequately addressed in Australia. Hence, new steps and more focus is needed in mental care department (landstedt et al., 2016).The children in Australia are at a high risk of developing mental illness in adulthood. A survey was made to evaluate the reasons and prevalence of the mental illness in the children or from infancy. Since early childhood, there is a chance of 51.7% of mental illness. The reasons determined can be modified. The reasons include the behavioral aspect of the parents. Risk increases with smoking and alcohol consumption by the mother. This may result in mental illness
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Depression is a mental disorder in which a patient might feel intense, prolonged, negative emotions (Beyond Blue, 2014). This can have severe impact on a person's mental and physical health, thus affecting a person's quality of life. Severe cases can even lead to suicide. It is estimated that one in six Australians will experience depression in their lifetime (Beyond Blue, 2014). The burden of disease gives an indication of of the loss of health and well being of Australians due to each disease (ABS, 2010). Depression and anxiety is the leading cause of burden among females, accounting for 10% of burden while it is the third leading cause for men, accounting for 4.8% (AIHW, 2003) (This was the most recent information found). Depression can affect all age groups but generally first starts to appear in adolescence and early adulthood (National Youth Mental Health Foundation, 2013).
According to an article by Josephine Marcotty in Minneapolis’ Star Tribune from April 10, college students lead “hyper-enriched lives,” said Greg Kneser, dean of students at St. Olaf College. That’s what makes this generation of students distinct from its predecessors, he said. That is why more students who cannot cope with these feelings end up at college counseling centers with “increasingly serious mental-health problems.” 15 to 20 percent of college students nationally were diagnosed with depression. The second most common diagnosis was severe anxiety. According to the article, it is not unusual for mental-health issues to become apparent during a student’s college years.
Mental health incorporates our psychological, emotional and social well being. It affects many things such as the way we act, feel or think. Our mental health determines how we cope with stress, relate to others and the choices we chose to make. Mental health disorders are the most dominant cause of disability among many young Australians between the age of 15-24 years. Anxiety and depression affects 50% of Australian males and 32% of females. Young people with mental illness struggle to focus in school and end up being either jobless or are very physically unhealthy. People develop mental illness for various reasons but some reasons include individual attributes, school context, social factors, life events and situations and
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Everyone feels anxious and stressed at times. However, when these feelings become a common every day ordeal, they can have devastating effects on one’s mental health. In recent years, the number of college students who are saying they have mental illnesses has been steadily increasing. Not everyone is going to be willing to get help, and the result of that could be a drop in academic performance and overall unhappiness. What colleges need to do is provide means of helping those who need it and ways to keep stress levels down to prevent devastating mental disorders from developing.
Many students on a college campus experience stress, depression, or being overwhelmed and rarely seek mental health services on campus. A study was done at a large, highly competitive, public research university, to see how many students experience any of these things and to see how many actually use their available resources (Laven, A.). Studies found that most of these students who experienced these emotional situations tended to have lower grade point averages; however, they indicated that their problems were not serious enough, they had never used the available resources on campus, and they generally knew very little about the resources on campus (Laven, A.). Although many of the freshmen indicated that they would rather turn to friends or family for advice, if the problem is persistent and affects one’s daily life, campus resources should be used.
Mental health is commonly used to connect or to refer issues dealing with ‘mental illnesses’. However, mental health services can cause some confusion when trying to understand the difference between the two terms, mental health and mental illnesses. Common examples that are exposed on daily bases are depression, anxiety, psychosis, and eating disorders. Mental health or “mental wellbeing” is a concept that is more than the visible of mental illnesses. Now a day’s people tend to use the term “mental illness” more as a fashion statement or trend, rather than using its real terminology. "Dismissing mental illness as a trendy fad is not just stupid, it’s dangerous,” said Dr. Brian Semple. These “trends” are the creation on how society perceives mental health and it is based on their social distance and their fear, pity, and or anger towards someone or something that cause these terms to be misused.
The Impact of High-Intensity Interval Training on Mental Health Outcomes in Older Adults Background, Aims and Hypothesis Background The Australian population, as of 2022, was 26 million (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2022), with approximately 4.2 million people classified as older adults (aged 65 and above) (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2023). Australia's population is aging due to increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates, resulting in a growing number of older individuals and an increasing share of older adults within the total population (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2023). In 1970, older Australians numbered 1.0 million (8.3% of the total population), increasing to 2.1 million (12%) by 1995
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Example where one has a lot of work and deadline is approaching, and then he/she may decide to prioritize his/her activity or seek extra assist. This is particularly effective against time stress; Psychological coping refer to the thoughts and perspective of individuals are used to manage with stress. Focus on the constructive side of something instead of the destructive side. This is especially appropriate to counter situational stress, and Problem-focused coping is centered on the problem and search the most suitable solution. This method works well to assist individuals deal with anticipatory stress, and last one introduced Emotion-focused coping which is based on how individuals channel their feelings into optimistic issue and is extremely impressive when handling with encounter stress (Vieet,
The behavioral response to stress involves coping. “Coping refers to active efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress” (Weiten & ...