•This is the first study reporting on the impacts of socio-cultural environment and lifestyle factors on the psychological health of university students in Bangladesh.•The prevalence of provisional ...depression (74.1%) and anxiety (61.9%) among the university students in Bangladesh is significantly high.•Female university students are more vulnerable to depression and anxiety disorders in Bangladesh.•Students’ depression and anxiety were inextricably linked with stress as well as university socio-cultural environment and students’ lifestyle factors such as physical inactivity, high and excessive recreational screen activity, low and high daily meal intake frequency, alcohol consumption, and derailed sleeping.
The psychological health of university students is an issue of utmost concern worldwide. Its consequences include multifaceted outcomes from complex interactions of sociocultural, environmental, and individual lifestyle factors. This research explores the impacts of socio-cultural environment and lifestyle factors on the psychological health of university students in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A 15-month follow-up was carried out among 1140 university students from April 2016 to November 2017. Data were collected by using a pre-developed questionnaire, consisting of socio-demographic information, comprehensive lifestyle information, and psychological health information including a nine-item scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for assessing the level of depression, and a 7-item scale, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) for assessing the level of anxiety. The collected data were analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software, version 22.
With time, there was a 22.5% increase in the prevalence of provisional depression and a 27.1% increase in the prevalence of anxiety. In terms of demographic factors, findings revealed that students dissatisfied with university culture were significantly more likely to experience depression (B = 5.13, p<0.01, β=0.33) and anxiety (B = 4.69, p<0.01, β=0.34). ‘Being female’, ‘being students of social sciences faculty’, ‘dissatisfaction with current education, financial condition and future career’ were found to be significant predictors of students’ psychological disorders. In terms of lifestyle factors, participants with high and excessive recreational screen time were significantly more vulnerable to depression (B = 1.25, p<0.01, β=0.097 and B = 1.75, p<0.01, β=0.12) and anxiety (B = 0.86, p = 0.02, β=0.08 and B = 1.22, p<0.01, β=0.096). Additionally, ‘weekly physical inactivity’, ‘dissatisfaction with daily sleep’, ‘short and long sleep duration’, ‘low and high daily meal intake frequency’ and ‘alcohol consumption’ were inextricably linked with students’ depression and anxiety.
The prevalence of provisional as well as major depressive and anxiety disorders among university students in Bangladesh is significantly high and augmented in nature. This study provides significant information about the adverse impacts of university socio-cultural environment and students’ lifestyle factors on their psychological health conditions.
Although female entrepreneurship contributes to the economic growth of nations, women are less likely to start new ventures compared to men. This gap, however, varies considerably across nations, ...suggesting that environmental factors play a role in explaining it. We employ the cross-cultural cognitive model of new venture creation to elucidate this variance. Based on data from 45 nations, we find that, while women and men differ pan-culturally in their likelihood to start new ventures, the socio-cultural dimensions of masculinity-femininity and institutional non-compliance exacerbate, while generalized trust mitigates this gap across nations.
В данной статье рассмотрено значение малых городов в истории страны и реализация функций социокультурного пространства малого населенного пункта на примере города Покров Владимирской области. Для ...этой цели произведен анализ развития города с момента основания и до текущего времени, произведена оценка его современных реалий в рамках развития социокультурной среды. Рассматривая данные о городе и анализируя научную литературу в рамках раскрываемой темы, автор предпринимает попытку оценить значимость малых городов в контексте развития страны, выделить особенности в этапах формирования этих особенностей, выделяет проблемы в обособленности малых городов и строит предположения о судьбе их дальнейшего существования.
While the Omani government’s endeavours over two decades to support entrepreneurship, particularly among women, have been significant, research has not substantiated their impacts; even so, the ...number of female entrepreneurs has substantially increased. This study aims to contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by investigating this aspect of the Omani government’s entrepreneurship efforts in addition to other factors found in literature that contribute to the success of female entrepreneurship. A comprehensive literature review is conducted using the ‘wildcard operator’ search technique to define the factors affecting success in entrepreneurship; the study tests these factors to understand their applicability in the Omani context in order to build a sound conceptual model. A questionnaire-based survey was employed to collect primary data from 218 successful Omani female entrepreneurs from 2017 to 2020. The data collected were analysed using structured equation modelling. Out of the 12 hypotheses proposed, seven were confirmed by the results, and a hypothetical multifactor success factor model was proposed accordingly. The proposed model can be used as a hands-on indicative tool for assisting Omani policy- and decision makers to implement effective policies in the future that will be able to leverage female entrepreneurship. The generalisability of the model needs further research to determine its fitness for the contexts of other countries.
The article is devoted to the questions of socio-cultural environment formation in the modern Russian higher educational institution. In the course of the study, the author analyses theoretical ...aspects of this social phenomenon, its forming elements and functional characteristics in the course of higher education system’s transformation. Based on the analysis results, the author comes to the conclusion about integration of functions, which allow managing innovations in the educational sphere effectively.
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