Coping and emotions of global higher education students to the Ukraine war worldwide

Aristovnik, Aleksander (avtor), Ravšelj, Dejan (avtor), Umek, Lan (avtor), Tomaževič, Nina (avtor)

Trauma scientists have raised the alarm about the devastating consequences of the Ukraine war on mental health. We examined how higher education students—as indirect victims—coped with this conflict and how they emotionally reacted during 2022. We involved 2314 students from 16 countries through an online survey. A structural equation model indicated significant relations between war-related worry about military and macroeconomics domains and two coping strategies (opposition, support giving), in turn significantly linked with six emotions. The model was strongly invariant across gender, study field, and geographic area. The most frequent emotions were anger and anxiety, followed by two future-centred emotions (hopelessness and hope). Emotions were more frequent for females and students of the countries geographically close to the war region. Our findings call for evidence-based policy recommendations to be implemented by institutions to combat the negative short and long-term psychological sequelae of being witnesses of armed conflicts.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: Ukraine war, higher education students, mental health, consequences, coping strategies, emotions
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FU - Fakulteta za upravo
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2024
• Št. strani: Str. 1-11
• Številčenje: Vol. 14
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155751
• UDK: 378-057.875:355.01(477):159.944.4
• ISSN pri članku: 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59009-3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 192509443
• Datum objave v RUL: 15.04.2024

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Scientific reports
• Skrajšan naslov: Sci. rep.
• Založnik: Nature Publishing Group
• ISSN: 2045-2322
• COBISS.SI-ID: 18727432

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: vojna v Ukrajini, študenti, duševno zdravje, posledice, strategije spoprijemanja s stresom, čustva

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P5-0093
• Naslov: Razvoj sistema učinkovite in uspešne javne uprave