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Home ⇛ psychology and education: a multidisciplinary journal ⇛ vol. 5 no. 2 (2022), mental health status of student leaders: basis for an enhancement program.

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The COVID-19 pandemic stimulated the appreciation of the importance of Mental Health in the Philippines, which urged the researchers to conduct this study. This research aims to measure the mental health status of student leaders from two (2) universities in the country and to design an intervention program based on the findings. Twenty-one (21) Psychology student leaders from Emilio Aguinaldo College-Manila, and National University-Laguna participated in this study. The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) was used as the instrument for assessing the mental health status of the respondents. The result shows that the participants are flourishing in Emotional Wellbeing (M=4.45), and Psychological Well-being (M=4.56), while Moderately Mentally Healthy in Social well-being (M=4.36). The researchers also found that 9.5% of the participants have languishing mental health, 19% are moderately mentally healthy, and 71.4% have flourishing mental health. The findings also revealed that there is no significant relationship (r-value 0.003, p-value 0.99) and no significant difference (t-value 1.302, p-value 0.234) between the mental health status of the participants from the two universities, implying that regardless of their university affiliation their mental health status is indistinguishable and similar. Based on the results, the enhancement program entitled "Mental Health and Leadership During Pandemic" was designed and implemented virtually.

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Mental Health Literacy and Mental Health of Filipino College Students

2021, North American Journal of Psychology

The present study investigated Filipino college students' mental health literacy and mental health using a descriptive cross-sectional design. Five hundred nineteen participants from six Philippine universities took the Mental Health Literacy Scale and the Mental Health Inventory. Descriptive analyses of the data were used to profile the students. T-tests were conducted to determine differences in our research variables when the participants were grouped according to gender and institution type. Results showed that Filipino college students generally have average mental health literacy scores and below-average scores on the MHI, average Psychological Well-being, and above-average Psychological Distress. We found no significant gender differences. However, students from state universities showed significantly higher mental health literacy scores than those in private universities. In comparison, students from private universities had substantially higher anxiety than those who participated from state universities. This present study's findings may provide relevant information that can serve as a basis for developing and improving school-based mental health services offered in various higher educational institutions in the Philippines.

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