Santé psychologique des étudiants et identification des personnes à risque: le retrait d'examen comme symptôme de la dépression

Franz Meyer de Stadelhofen, Anne-Charlotte Plancherel, Samuel Berthoud and Luc Michel

International Journal of Public Health, 2003, vol. 48, issue 2, 97-104

Abstract: ¶ Student psychological health and the problem of identifying at-risk individuals: withdrawing from an exam session as a symptom of depression¶ Objective: Our exploratory study concerning student psychological health was aimed at identifying possible subgroups of at-risk students within a college-student population.¶ Method: A total of 445 students answered four questionnaires (three standard psychometric instruments and an ad hoc questionnaire comprising 50 multiple-choice questions). We then searched for risk-groups by studying all answers obtained with the ad hoc questionnaire and looking for those answers that were significantly correlated with ratings of psychopathology. To carry out this search, we used first and second order principal components factor analysis.¶ Results: Our results show that the incidence of depression is almost twice as high among students that have withdrawn from an exam session than among the other students in our sample. It is further possible to determine that, in our sample, it is not withdrawing from an exam session that causes depression but, rather, it is depression that increases the probability of withdrawing from an exam session.¶ Conclusion: It thus definitely seems that, unlike flunking exams, withdrawing from exams is often a symptom of depression. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, 2003

Keywords: Key words: College students – Mental health – Risk factors – Switzerland – Depression. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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