scholarly journals Effectiveness of an online positive psychology intervention among Tunisian healthcare students on mental health and study engagement during the Covid‐19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imen Krifa ◽  
Quentin Hallez ◽  
Llewellyn Ellardus Zyl ◽  
Amel Braham ◽  
Jihene Sahli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Healthcare Students ◽  
Positive Psychology Intervention ◽  
Study Engagement

scholarly journals Power up! A Pilot Study of a Positive Psychology Intervention for Mental Health Professionals in Greece

Psychology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (06) ◽  
pp. 976-991
Author(s):  
Eirini Karakasidou ◽  
Georgia Raftopoulou ◽  
Michael Galanakis ◽  
Anastassios Stalikas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Positive Psychology Intervention

Effects of a Community‐Based Multicomponent Positive Psychology Intervention on Mental Health of Rural Adults in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 828-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Appiah ◽  
Angelina Wilson‐Fadiji ◽  
Lusilda Schutte ◽  
Marié P. Wissing
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Positive Psychology Intervention ◽  
Rural Adults

scholarly journals A Survey and a Positive Psychology Intervention on French PhD Student Well-being

10.28945/3948 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 109-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel AB Marais ◽  
Rebecca Shankland ◽  
Pascale Haag ◽  
Robin Fiault ◽  
Bridget Juniper
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Positive Psychology Intervention ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health And Well Being

Aim/Purpose: The present work focuses on French PhD students’ well-being: an understudied working population thus far, which impedes the development of evidence-based policies on this issue in France.The focus of this work is the well-being of French PhD students, on which almost nothing has been published thus far, impeding any evidence-based policy on this issue to be carried out in France. Background: Research studies from several countries have shown that carrying out a PhD can be a difficult experience resulting in high attrition rates with significant financial and human costs. Methodology: The two studies presented in this article focus on biology PhD students from University Lyon 1, a very large French university (~40,000 students). A first study aimed at measuring the mental health and well-being of PhD students using generalist and PhD-specific tools. In a second study, we carried out and assessed a positive psychology intervention (PPI) aimed at improving PhD students’ well-being. Contribution: Our work is one of the first characterizations of French PhD students’ mental health and well-being. As with other recent studies conducted in Western coun-tries, we found a high level of mental distress among PhD students. Our work also underlines the importance of taking many dimensions of the PhD (not only supervisor behaviour) in order to understand PhD student well-being. Cultural specificities are highlighted and can help inform the design of interventions adapted to each situation. The PPI showed pre-to-post positive changes on PhD students’ well-being. Further research is needed on a larger sample size in order to detect more subtle effects. However, these results are promising in terms of interventions that help reduce PhD student distress. Findings: Study 1 involved 136 participants and showed that a large fraction of the PhD students experiences abnormal levels of stress, depression, and anxiety. We found that career training and prospects, research experience, and the impact of carrying out a thesis on health and private life have more impact on PhD students’ mental health than the supervisors’ behaviour. French PhD students’ well-being is specifically affected by career uncertainty, perceived lack of progress in the PhD, and perceived lack of competence compared to UK PhD students well-being, which suggests cultural differences about the PhD experi-ence in France compared to other countries. In study 2, the scores of the test and control groups (N = 10 and N = 13, respectively) showed a clear effect of the intervention on reducing anxiety. Impact on Society: The high levels of mental health issues and reduced well-being in French PhD students reported in this study underline the importance of developing interventions in this field. Improving the supervisor-student relationship is one possibility but is not the only one. Interventions aimed at learning how to cope with the research experience and with the uncertainty with career pathways, and a good balance between PhD work and personal life present other promising possibilities

A positive psychology study and intervention on the well-being of French PhD students in biology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Marais ◽  
Rebecca Shankland ◽  
Pascale Haag ◽  
Robin Fiault ◽  
Bridget Juniper
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Reference Sample ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Control ◽  
Health And Well Being

In France, little data are available on mental health and well-being in academia, and nothing has been published about PhD students. From studies abroad, we know that doing a PhD is a difficult experience resulting in high attrition rates with significant financial and human costs. Here we focused on PhD students in biology at university Lyon 1. A first study aimed at measuring the mental health and well-being of PhD students using several generalist and PhD-specific tools. Our results on 136 participants showed that a large fraction of the PhD students experience abnormal levels of stress, depression and anxiety, and their mean well-being score is significantly lower than that of a British reference sample. French PhD student well-being is specifically affected by career uncertainty, perceived lack of progress in the PhD and perceived lack of competence, which points towards possible cultural differences of experiencing a PhD in France and the UK. In a second study, we carried out a positive psychology intervention. Comparing the scores of the test and control groups showed a clear effect of the intervention on reducing anxiety. We discuss our results and the possible future steps to improve French PhD students’ well-being.

scholarly journals Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Waters ◽  
Sara B. Algoe ◽  
Jane Dutton ◽  
Robert Emmons ◽  
Barbara L. Fredrickson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Psychology
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