Mental Health and Well-Being of University Students: A Bibliometric Mapping of the Literature

Frontiers in Psychology

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Daniel Hernández-Torrano¹  Laura Ibrayeva¹  Jason Sparks¹  Natalya Lim²  Alessandra Clementi²  Ainur Almukhambetova¹  Yerden Nurtayev³  Ainur Muratkyzy¹ 

[1]Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University

[2]Nazarbayev University School of Medicine

[3]Psychological Counseling Center, Nazarbayev University

关键词: mental health;    mental illness;    well-being;    psychological distress;    university students;    higher education;    bibliometric review;    VOSViewer;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01226

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY