Understanding Mental Health and Well-Being in University Students
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 74
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anxiety disorders; resilience; psychological trauma; self-compassion
Interests: mental health wellbeing; mental health difficulties (e.g., depression, anxiety, suicide ideation), from the perspective of personal motivation; future-directed thinking; affect and emotional regulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are developing a special edition of the journal entitled "Understanding Mental Health and Well-Being in University Students". This special edition seeks to gather research that addresses the psychological needs of university students which determine mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. We are interested in papers that help us better understand the sources of mental health concerns in university students. These could include sources of psychological stress for students (e.g., assessment stress, workload stress); the impact of technology on learning and AI (e.g., chat GPT); online teaching and internet addiction; financial and social stressors (e.g., problems of low SES students, food insecurity, homelessness). Research on distinct psychological processes implicated in maintaining or exacerbating mental health difficulties and psychological processes that regulate or promote mental wellbeing is welcomed. Equally, we are interested in research on protective factors and the development of resilience in university students as well as interventions to enhance mental health concerns in a university context. Such interventions might include direct treatment interventions or university-wide initiatives that enhance mental health and aid learning. Given that concerns may differ across different cultures and time periods we welcome studies that consider different cultural contexts or discuss learnings from the covid-19 and new normal time periods. Papers can be in the form of scoping or systematic reviews, quantitative investigations, qualitative analyses or case studies.
Prof. Dr. Glen Bates
Prof. Dr. Joanne Dickson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- university students
- mental health
- psychological stressors well-being
- resilience
- treatment interventions
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