Characteristics of University Students with Emotional Problems

Abstract

In an attempt to further clarify back-ground characteristics associated with emotional problems among university students, forty-nine social and medical variables were selected for study and applied in questionnaire form to three groups of University of Western Ontario students: 1) seventy-three students consulting psychiatric services; 2) one hundred and fifty-three students consulting the Counsellor of the Student Health Service on the campus; 3) a control group of 243 students drawn from the Student Directory, not in 1) or 2) above, representing 243 of 250 questionnaires sent out. On comparing the three groups, each with the other two, (and repeated for males, females and both sexes combined) 25 of the 49 variables demonstrated significant (p