Comparison the Psychological Wellbeing of University Students from Hungary and Romania

• Authors: Anita Barth , Ildikó Nagy , János Kiss
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The results obtained in our research of mental distress indicators and results of conflict management strategies are consistent with the results of international studies. Students participating in the study (N=237) reached the highest average results in the field of personal growth, while we measured the lowest value in the fields of autonomy and the dominance of the enviroment. Among the mental distress indicators the students gave the highest scores for the stress. The frequency examination showed the results of the participants to fall to 40.9% of moderate-severe and severe extreme range. While among the genders, women indicate much higher stress levels. In addition, the students preferred the avoiding conflict management strategy in preference to the other four strategies. While we compared the students from the two countries we found a significant difference between the survey field of autonomy and purpose in life. We also found a notable difference among the mental distress indicators. While the students of the University of Debrecen were moderate, the students of the universities of Oradea fell in the “slight” area (in the range of stress). For the usage of conflict management strategies we found no significant differences between the two countries' students. The students from both countries preferred the avoiding strategy. This study similiar to many national and international studies indicates the high level of stress among the students. One of the most important task of a higher education institution should be the protection of the students’ mental health which would lead to an improvement on well-being and that would cause the lowering of the stress level.

Keywords

EN

comparative study; stress and distress; wellbeing; psychology

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Practice and Theory in Systems of Education
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 186-193

Dates

published

2015-05-01

received

2015-01-08

accepted

2015-04-21

online

2015-07-29

Contributors

author

Anita Barth

author

Ildikó Nagy

• University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

author

János Kiss

• University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ptse-2015-0018