In the study “Mental health and well-being in Mexican doctoral students” which was applied in the community of doctoral students of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, (UASLP), it was detected that a part of them suffers from a mental disorder fundamentally characterized by a low mood and feelings of sadness.
“We have some preliminary data, according to the figure, UASLP has around 300 doctoral students and we have 90 data collected, we have found that doctoral students present more depressive symptoms than anxious ones, the majority of participants are men, about 60 percent. There is more training for men than for women, but these are still preliminary data,” he explained in an interview. Maria Paola Jimenezoriginally from the country of Colombia, who carried out a project at the Faculty of Psychology to identify the moods of these postgraduate students.
The majority of students are local and to a lesser extent from other entities in the country, and only 12 percent come from other countries. Regarding mental health variables, she warned that in this sample, Students in this grade tend to have greater fatigue and low energy.
With the aim of obtaining the international mention of the Doctorate in Health and Sports Psychology, by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the specialist in epidemiology with a master’s degree in Social Intervention; and who currently has a scholarship from the Ministry of Colombia, is a fourth-year doctoral student at the UAB, was working on said project supported by Luis Martínez Blanquet, responsible for Internationalization at the Faculty of Psychology at the UASLP and also a graduate of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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It was from the month of March 2024 when he began the work and until now he has investigated about mental health variables such as depressive symptoms, anxiety, some positive and negative symptomsalso satisfaction with life and moods.
“In that result, We found the presence of depressive symptoms in the participating doctoral students“In relation to their well-being, they have a good perception of friendship and positive affection, without a doubt, a good perception of their context.”
The background and The study carried out in Barcelona, Spain, showed similar data with that of Mexicoin the mental health variables, doctoral students in Spain present the same depressive symptoms accompanied by fatigue.
Doctoral students are very similar in context to early career researchers who They face challenges, feel pressured to publish with time against them, long working hours, accompanied by an uncertain futureamong other risk factors for your mental health.
