Mental health in the portuguese of higher education in front of the transition to the labor market

Abstract

In the current environment of economic crisis, and rising unemployment the concern is primarily with the deterioration of Mental Health of university students who will go to the labor market, since this transition poses highlighted problems with the mental health of university students, contributing to the development of higher levels of anxiety and stress This article is a comprehensive summary of a research, who sought to determine whether there is a relationship between mental health in higher Portuguese education students face the transition to the labor market. Looking corroborate this end, we used a sample of 302 students, of different establishments of Higher Education of Portugal. For the assessment of study variables were used the portuguese version of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) (Canavarro, 1999), the portuguese version of the Mental Health Inventory (MHI) (Ribeiro, 2001), and the Job Hopelessness Scale (JHS). The main results show that there is an association between the discouragement towards job search and the psychopathological symptomatology evaluated by the BSI, and that there is an association between the discouragement towards the job search and the distress and the psychological well-being evaluated by the MHI.

Keywords

• salud mental
• distress
• desaliento
• mercado de trabajo
• estudiantes universitarios