Akhtar Mubeen, Herwig Birgit Kroener
Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan.
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Georg Elias Mueller Institute of Psychology, Georg August University Goettingen, Germany.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2020 Jul;70(7):1119-1124. doi: 10.5455/JPMA.10448.
To assess the predictive role of academic stress in anxiety, depression and somatisation among international students in Germany, and to explore if socio-demographic factors were of any significance in this regard.
The cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2017 to March 2018 in Germany and comprised students at universities offering programmes in the general subject category and had a strength of 1000 international students. Data was collected using the Student Stress Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Major Depression Inventory, Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness and a socio-demographic questionnaire. Data was collected online, and was analysed using SPSS 21.
Of the 557 subjects, 261(46.9%) were males. The overall mean age of the sample was 25.77±3.79 years. Academic stress explained a great degree of variance in distress symptoms (p<0.05), while socio-demographic variables, except gender, were less important (p>0.05). Male students had a lower level of anxiety, depression, and somatisation (p<0.05). Age was inversely related to anxiety and somatisation (p<0.05).
There was a clear need to address the problems of higher level of psychological and somatic distress among international students.
评估学业压力在德国国际学生焦虑、抑郁和躯体化方面的预测作用，并探讨社会人口学因素在这方面是否具有重要意义。
2017年10月至2018年3月在德国进行了一项横断面研究，研究对象为提供普通学科类课程且有1000名国际学生的大学中的学生。使用学生压力量表、贝克焦虑量表、重度抑郁量表、边缘性倦怠彭尼贝克量表和一份社会人口学问卷收集数据。数据通过在线方式收集，并使用SPSS 21进行分析。
在557名受试者中，261名（46.9%）为男性。样本的总体平均年龄为25.77±3.
