Mental Health and Well-Being of University Students: A Bibliometric Mapping of the Literature
Mental Health and Well-Being of University Students: A Bibliometric Mapping of the Literature
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01226
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发表时间：
2020-06-09
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Muratkyzy, Ainur
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作者：
Hernandez-Torrano, Daniel;Ibrayeva, Laura;Muratkyzy, Ainur
这项研究的目的是使用从Web of Science数据库中检索的5561篇期刊文章中提取的元数据，绘制1975-2020年间关于大学生心理健康和幸福感的文献。更具体地说，本研究采用文献计量学的方法，从大学生心理健康和幸福感的成长轨迹、生产力、社会结构、智力结构和概念结构等方面描述并直观地呈现了该领域45年来的相关文献。这项研究的主要发现是，关于大学生心理健康和幸福感的研究：(A)在过去几十年里经历了稳步增长，特别是自2010年以来；(B)在广泛的期刊上传播，主要是在心理学、精神病学和教育研究领域；(C)由具有不同地理背景的学者发表，尽管超过一半的出版物是在美国出版的；(D)存在于由多个研究小组组成的分散的研究社区，他们之间几乎没有互动；(E)相对跨学科，是行为科学和生物医学研究的汇合点；(F)倾向于强调精神健康的致病方法(即精神疾病)；和(G)在过去45年中主要涉及七个研究主题：积极的精神健康、精神障碍、药物滥用、咨询、污名、压力和精神健康测量。讨论了这些发现，并强调了对该领域未来发展的影响。
The purpose of this study is to map the literature on mental health and well-being of university students using metadata extracted from 5,561 journal articles indexed in the Web of Science database for the period 1975-2020. More specifically, this study uses bibliometric procedures to describe and visually represent the available literature on mental health and well-being in university students in terms of the growth trajectory, productivity, social structure, intellectual structure, and conceptual structure of the field over 45 years. Key findings of the study are that research on mental health and well-being in university students: (a) has experienced a steady growth over the last decades, especially since 2010; (b) is disseminated in a wide range of journals, mainly in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and education research; (c) is published by scholars with diverse geographical background, although more than half of the publications are produced in the United States; (d) lies on a fragmented research community composed by multiple research groups with little interactions between them; (e) is relatively interdisciplinary and emerges from the convergence of research conducted in the behavioral and biomedical sciences; (f) tends to emphasize pathogenic approaches to mental health (i.e., mental illness); and (g) has mainly addressed seven research topics over the last 45 years: positive mental health, mental disorders, substance abuse, counseling, stigma, stress, and mental health measurement. The findings are discussed, and the implications for the future development of the field are highlighted.