TY - JOUR
T1 - Coping and emotions of global higher education students to the Ukraine war worldwide
AU - Raccanello, Daniela
AU - Burro, Roberto
AU - Aristovnik, Aleksander
AU - Ravšelj, Dejan
AU - Umek, Lan
AU - Vicentini, Giada
AU - Hall, Rob
AU - Buizza, Chiara
AU - Buzdar, Muhammad Ayub
AU - Chatterjee, Surobhi
AU - Cucari, Nicola
AU - Dobrowolska, Beata
AU - Ferreira-Oliveira, Ana Teresa
AU - França, Thais
AU - Ghilardi, Alberto
AU - Inasius, Fany
AU - Kar, Sujita Kumar
AU - Karampelas, Konstantinos
AU - Kuzyshyn, Andrii
AU - Lazăr, Florin
AU - Machin-Mastromatteo, Juan D.
AU - Malliarou, Maria
AU - Marques, Bertil P.
AU - Méndez-Prado, Silvia Mariela
AU - Mollica, Cristina
AU - Obadić, Alka
AU - Olaniyan, Olawale Festus
AU - Rodrigues, Ana Sofia
AU - Sbravati, Giulio
AU - Vasić, Aleksandra
AU - Zamfir, Ana-Maria
AU - Tomaževič, Nina
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PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41598-024-59009-3
DO - 10.1038/s41598-024-59009-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 38609468
AN - SCOPUS:85190280338
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 14
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
IS - 1
M1 - 8561
ER -