Mental Well-Being of Czech University Students : Academic Motivation, Self-Compassion, and Self-Criticism

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F22%3A00135051" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/22:00135051 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112135" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112135</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112135" target="_blank" >10.3390/healthcare10112135</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mental Well-Being of Czech University Students : Academic Motivation, Self-Compassion, and Self-Criticism

Original language description

University students in the Czech Republic suffer from a low level of mental well-being. Research in other university student populations suggests that academic motivation, self-compassion, and self-criticism are strongly related to mental well-being. Students who are motivated to study, are kind toward themselves, and are less judgmental of themselves tend to have a high level of mental well-being. These relationships had not been evaluated in Czech students. Accordingly, this cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the relationships between mental well-being, academic motivation (intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation), self-compassion (self-reassurance) and self-criticism (self-inadequacy and self-hate). Of 130 students approached, a convenience sampling of 119 psychology students at a university in the Czech Republic completed a survey regarding these constructs. Correlation, regression, and path analyses were conducted. Mental well-being was positively associated with intrinsic motivation and self-compassion, and negatively associated with amotivation and self-criticism. Self-compassion was identified as the strongest predictor of mental well-being. Lastly, intrinsic motivation mediated the pathway from self-compassion to mental well-being, but not the one from self-inadequacy to mental well-being, and the one from self-hate to mental well-being. Our findings can help educators to identify effective means to protect students’ mental well-being. Cultivating students’ self-compassion may be helpful to protect their mental well-being. University staff and educators in the Czech Republic need to consider ways to embed self-compassion training into their students’ programmes or university life.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Healthcare

ISSN

2227-9032

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

2135

UT code for WoS article

000881198400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85141624062