Current trends in West African universities, students’ psychological distress, and quality of life: a quantitative study
Terrorism threats on education in West Africa, massification, student pauperization, unemployment, living environments, university managements, and poor infrastructures have seemingly affected students’ lifestyles, learning, achievements, mental health but also teaching, and learner-instructor in...
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Apprentissage Détresse psychologique Enseignement supérieur Problèmes émergents Qualité de vie. Emergent issues Higher education Learning Psychological distress Quality of life. |
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Terrorism threats on education in West Africa, massification, student pauperization, unemployment, living environments, university managements, and poor infrastructures have seemingly affected students’ lifestyles, learning, achievements, mental health but also teaching, and learner-instructor interrelationship. In the light of this, it was argued that new difficulties have emerged on university and college campuses. This study aimed to find out the prevalence of the resulting depression, anxiety, and stress among university students in a French speaking West African university and to gauge their general quality of life. Instruments included the depression, anxiety, and stress scale (DASS-21), subscales of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale and General Quality of Life (MSLSS), and a demographic questionnaire. Participants were 348 female and male students. Descriptive analyses revealed that 10.05% of the students had levels of depression ranging from mild to moderate, 19.25% had levels of anxiety ranging from mild to severe, and 3.15% of participants had stress levels ranging from mild to moderate. Multiple linear regression analyses showed that students’ depression and anxiety predicted their quality of life. None of the different mean scores between female and male students, however, were statistically significant. Based on the findings, we argued that, although the studied population has psychological distress comparable to that of students elsewhere albeit current issues, cultural and geographical differences, they reported older ages and lower grade point averages (GPA). Psychological distress, quality of life, social, economic factors, and lack of infrastructures impact university students’ health, achievement, and the vision, mission, and quality of higher education.
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cairn-RASP_501_0099RASPRevue Africaine des Sciences Sociales et de la Santé Publique https://stm.cairn.info/revue-africaine-des-sciences-sociales-et-de-la-sante-publique-2023-1-page-99?lang=en Current trends in West African universities, students’ psychological distress, and quality of life: a quantitative study Bene, Konabe2023 ApprentissageDétresse psychologiqueEnseignement supérieurProblèmes émergentsQualité de vie.Emergent issuesHigher educationLearningPsychological distressQuality of life.fre Revue Africaine des Sciences Sociales et de la Santé Publique | Volume 5 | 1 | 2023-01-14 | p. 99-120 | 1987-071X RASP_50166 Terrorism threats on education in West Africa, massification, student pauperization, unemployment, living environments, university managements, and poor infrastructures have seemingly affected students’ lifestyles, learning, achievements, mental health but also teaching, and learner-instructor interrelationship. In the light of this, it was argued that new difficulties have emerged on university and college campuses. This study aimed to find out the prevalence of the resulting depression, anxiety, and stress among university students in a French speaking West African university and to gauge their general quality of life. Instruments included the depression, anxiety, and stress scale (DASS-21), subscales of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale and General Quality of Life (MSLSS), and a demographic questionnaire. Participants were 348 female and male students. Descriptive analyses revealed that 10.05% of the students had levels of depression ranging from mild to moderate, 19.25% had levels of anxiety ranging from mild to severe, and 3.15% of participants had stress levels ranging from mild to moderate. Multiple linear regression analyses showed that students’ depression and anxiety predicted their quality of life. None of the different mean scores between female and male students, however, were statistically significant. Based on the findings, we argued that, although the studied population has psychological distress comparable to that of students elsewhere albeit current issues, cultural and geographical differences, they reported older ages and lower grade point averages (GPA). Psychological distress, quality of life, social, economic factors, and lack of infrastructures impact university students’ health, achievement, and the vision, mission, and quality of higher education. Les menaces terroristes sur l’éducation en Afrique de l’Ouest, la massification, la paupérisation des étudiants, le chômage, les cadres de vie, la gestion des universités et la médiocrité des infrastructures ont apparemment affecté les modes de vie des étudiants, l’apprentissage, les acquis, la santé mentale mais aussi l’enseignement et l’interrelation apprenant-instructeur. À la lumière de cela, il a été soutenu que de nouvelles difficultés sont apparues sur les campus. Cette étude visait à déterminer la prévalence de la dépression, de l’anxiété et du stress qui en résultent chez les étudiants d’une université francophone d’Afrique de l’Ouest et à évaluer leur qualité de vie générale. Les instruments utilisés comprenaient l’échelle de dépression, d’anxiété et de stress (DASS-21), des sous-échelles de l’échelle multidimensionnelle de satisfaction de la vie des étudiants et de la qualité de vie en générale (MSLSS) et un questionnaire démographique. Les participants étaient au nombre de 348 étudiants féminins et masculins. Des analyses descriptives ont révélé que 10,05 % des étudiants avaient des niveaux de dépression allant de léger à modéré, 19,25 % avaient des niveaux d’anxiété allant de léger à sévère et 3,15 % des participants avaient des niveaux de stress allant de léger à modéré. Des analyses de régression linéaire multiple ont montré que la dépression et l’anxiété des étudiants prédisaient leur qualité de vie. Cependant, aucun des différents scores moyens entre les hommes et les femmes n’était statistiquement significatif. Sur la base des résultats, nous avons soutenu que, bien que la population étudiée ait une détresse psychologique comparable à celle des étudiants ailleurs, malgré les problèmes actuels, les différences culturelles et géographiques, ils ont signalé des âges plus avancés et des moyennes pondérées cumulatives (GPA) inférieures. La détresse psychologique, la qualité de vie, les facteurs sociaux, économiques et le manque d’infrastructures ont un impact sur la santé, la réussite, la vision, la mission et la qualité de l’enseignement supérieur. Cairn free access |