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      Mental Health and Well-Being of University Students: A Bibliometric Mapping of the Literature

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          The purpose of this study is to map the literature on mental health and well-being of university students using metadata extracted from 5,561 journal articles indexed in the Web of Science database for the period 1975–2020. More specifically, this study uses bibliometric procedures to describe and visually represent the available literature on mental health and well-being in university students in terms of the growth trajectory, productivity, social structure, intellectual structure, and conceptual structure of the field over 45 years. Key findings of the study are that research on mental health and well-being in university students: (a) has experienced a steady growth over the last decades, especially since 2010; (b) is disseminated in a wide range of journals, mainly in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and education research; (c) is published by scholars with diverse geographical background, although more than half of the publications are produced in the United States; (d) lies on a fragmented research community composed by multiple research groups with little interactions between them; (e) is relatively interdisciplinary and emerges from the convergence of research conducted in the behavioral and biomedical sciences; (f) tends to emphasize pathogenic approaches to mental health (i.e., mental illness); and (g) has mainly addressed seven research topics over the last 45 years: positive mental health, mental disorders, substance abuse, counseling, stigma, stress, and mental health measurement. The findings are discussed, and the implications for the future development of the field are highlighted.

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              Increasingly, colleges across the world are contending with rising rates of mental disorders, and in many cases, the demand for services on campus far exceeds the available resources. The present study reports initial results from the first stage of the WHO World Mental Health International College Student project, in which a series of surveys in 19 colleges across 8 countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, United States) were carried out with the aim of estimating prevalence and basic sociodemographic correlates of common mental disorders among first-year college students. Web-based self-report questionnaires administered to incoming first-year students (45.5% pooled response rate) screened for six common lifetime and 12-month DSM-IV mental disorders: major depression, mania/hypomania, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, alcohol use disorder, and substance use disorder. We focus on the 13,984 respondents who were full-time students: 35% of whom screened positive for at least one of the common lifetime disorders assessed and 31% screened positive for at least one 12-month disorder. Syndromes typically had onsets in early to middle adolescence and persisted into the year of the survey. Although relatively modest, the strongest correlates of screening positive were older age, female sex, unmarried-deceased parents, no religious affiliation, nonheterosexual identification and behavior, low secondary school ranking, and extrinsic motivation for college enrollment. The weakness of these associations means that the syndromes considered are widely distributed with respect to these variables in the student population. Although the extent to which cost-effective treatment would reduce these risks is unclear, the high level of need for mental health services implied by these results represents a major challenge to institutions of higher education and governments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                09 June 2020
                2020
                : 11
                : 1226
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University , Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
                [2] 2Nazarbayev University School of Medicine , Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
                [3] 3Psychological Counseling Center, Nazarbayev University , Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
                Author notes

                Edited by: Antonella Granieri, University of Turin, Italy

                Reviewed by: Stefano Triberti, University of Milan, Italy; Melissa Orlandin Premaor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

                *Correspondence: Daniel Hernández-Torrano, daniel.torrano@ 123456nu.edu.kz ; d.hernandeztorrano@ 123456gmail.com

                This article was submitted to Psychology for Clinical Settings, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01226
                7296142
                32581976
                3dd7cea6-c700-46d3-a02f-2f70fecaa623
                Copyright © 2020 Hernández-Torrano, Ibrayeva, Sparks, Lim, Clementi, Almukhambetova, Nurtayev and Muratkyzy.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 03 March 2020
                : 11 May 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 6, Tables: 4, Equations: 0, References: 86, Pages: 16, Words: 0
                Funding
                Funded by: Nazarbayev University 10.13039/501100012632
                Categories
                Psychology
                Original Research

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                mental health,mental illness,well-being,psychological distress,university students,higher education,bibliometric review,vosviewer

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