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

Journal: Scientific reports

Volume: 14

Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 2024

Affiliated Institutions:  Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. aleksander.aristovnik@fu.uni-lj.si. Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. dejan.ravselj@fu.uni-lj.si. Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. lan.umek@fu.uni-lj.si. Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. Department of Secondary Teacher Education, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India. Department of Management, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland. CISAS, Polytechnic Institute of Viana Do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Cies-Iscte, Lisbon, Portugal. School of Accounting, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Pedagogic Department of Elementary Education, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece. Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine. Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania. Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. Department of Nursing, University of Thessaly, Vólos, Greece. Institute of Engineering of Porto, P.PORTO-Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, ESPOL Polytechnic University, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of The Gambia, Serrekunda, Gambia. Faculty of Law, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia. National Scientific Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Bucharest, Romania. Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. nina.tomazevic@fu.uni-lj.si.

Abstract summary 

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.

Authors & Co-authors:  Raccanello Daniela D Burro Roberto R Aristovnik Aleksander A Ravšelj Dejan D Umek Lan L Vicentini Giada G Hall Rob R Buizza Chiara C Buzdar Muhammad Ayub MA Chatterjee Surobhi S Cucari Nicola N Dobrowolska Beata B Ferreira-Oliveira Ana Teresa AT França Thais T Ghilardi Alberto A Inasius Fany F Kar Sujita Kumar SK Karampelas Konstantinos K Kuzyshyn Andrii A Lazăr Florin F Machin-Mastromatteo Juan D JD Malliarou Maria M Marques Bertil P BP Méndez-Prado Silvia Mariela SM Mollica Cristina C Obadić Alka A Olaniyan Olawale Festus OF Rodrigues Ana Sofia AS Sbravati Giulio G Vasić Aleksandra A Zamfir Ana-Maria AM Tomaževič Nina N

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Citations :  Editorial In the shadow of war. Nat. Hum. Behav. 2022;6:745. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01407-6.
Authors :  32
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Doi : 8561
SSN : 2045-2322
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Female,Females
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Female
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England