Emergent Psychological Trends affecting University Students through Global Economic Crises
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Psychological Trends, Education, Economic Crises, University StudentsAbstract
The struggle for survival has taken a turn, striking educational growth in Nigeria. Parents and guardians of students may be struggling to feed their families in the current economic global crises, not to talk of shelter and other life luxuries. Students whose parents and guardians are under tight economic situation are not likely to satisfy their physiological needs, safety and security needs as well as the need for love and belonging. These crises is very likely to influence cognitive imbalance and emotional disturbances among students, which in turn is likely to affect their concentration and motivation in school. Learning may therefore be difficult to occur in this kind of situation. Thus, present study investigated the emergent psychological trends affecting university students in the global economic crises. It is obvious from literature that university students suffer depression, anxiety, helplessness and burnout. Empirical studies also showed that university students suffered in their studies due to inability to pay school fees, which leads to dropping out of schools as a result of hard economic situation, and many find it difficult to feed. In addition, students used to engage into part time labour out of school hours in order to sustain themselves in school. It is recommended that students exhibiting symptoms of psychological trends should be immediately referred to counsellors and therapists. Government and other stakeholders in education should provide palliatives to parents and guidance of students in order to ease their struggle.
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