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PubMed: 38609468 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59009-3
Coping and emotions of global higher education students to the Ukraine war worldwide.
Sci Rep 14(1):8561
Authors: Daniela Raccanello, Roberto Burro, Aleksander Aristovnik, Dejan Ravšelj, Lan Umek, Giada Vicentini, Rob Hall, Chiara Buizza, Muhammad Ayub Buzdar, Surobhi Chatterjee, Nicola Cucari, Beata Dobrowolska, Ana Teresa Ferreira-Oliveira, Thais França, Alberto Ghilardi, Fany Inasius, Sujita Kumar Kar, Konstantinos Karampelas, Andrii Kuzyshyn, Florin Lazăr, Juan D Machin-Mastromatteo, Maria Malliarou, Bertil P Marques, Silvia Mariela Méndez-Prado, Cristina Mollica, Alka Obadić, Olawale Festus Olaniyan, Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Giulio Sbravati, Aleksandra Vasić, Ana-Maria Zamfir, Nina Tomaževič
Affiliations
- Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
- Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
- Environmetrics, Killara, 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.
Abstract
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.
MeSH
Emotions, Conflict, Psychological, Education