- Title
- Explaining the association between subjective social status and mental health among university students using an impact ratings approach
- Creator
- Rubin, Mark
- Relation
- SN Social Sciences Vol. 1, Issue 1, no. 20
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-020-00031-3
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Previous research has found a positive association between social class and mental health among university students. Various mediators of this association have been proposed. However, the extent to which students perceive these mediators as having an impact on their mental health has not been investigated. It is important to investigate this issue because students who do not perceive issues as having an impact on their mental health may not be motivated to address those issues. In the current study, 402 first-year undergraduate psychology students from a large Australian university indicated the extent to which 32 issues had a negative impact on their mental health over the past six months. Students rated lack of money, time management, coursework assessment items, lack of sleep, and course marks as having the largest impact on their mental health. Lack of money and time management mediated the positive association between subjective social status and mental health over (a) the past week and (b) the past month. Coursework assessment items and course marks mediated the positive association between subjective social status and satisfaction with the university experience. It is concluded that interventions should focus on these relatively high impact issues in order to address social class differences in students' mental health and university satisfaction.
- Subject
- course assessment; lack of money; mental health; social class; university satisfaction; university students
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1495472
- Identifier
- uon:54021
- Identifier
- ISSN:2523-3963
- Rights
- This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-020-00031-3.
- Language
- eng
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