Greek college students and psychopathology: new insights.
BACKGROUND
College students' mental health problems include depression, anxiety, panic disorders, phobias and obsessive compulsive thoughts.


OBJECTIVE
To investigate Greek college students' psychopathology.


METHODS
During the initial evaluation, 638 college students were assessed through the following psychometric questionnaires: (a) Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ); (b) The Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90); (c) The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI); (d) State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).


RESULTS
State anxiety and trait anxiety were correlated, to a statistically significant degree, with the family status of the students (p = 0.024) and the past visits to the psychiatrist (p = 0.039) respectively. The subscale of psychoticism is significantly related with the students' origin, school, family status and semester. The subscale of neuroticism is significantly related with the students' school. The subscale of extraversion is significantly related with the students' family psychiatric history. Students, whose place of origin is Attica, have on average higher scores in somatization, phobic anxiety and paranoid ideation than the other students. Students from abroad have, on average, higher scores in interpersonal sensitivity and psychoticism than students who hail from other parts of Greece. The majority of the students (79.7%) do not suffer from depression, according to the Beck's depression inventory scale.


CONCLUSIONS
Anxiety, somatization, personality traits and depression are related with the students' college life.
Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, 74 Vas. Sofias Ave., Athens 11528, Greece. kontange@hol.gr.|University Mental Health Research Institute, 27 Soranou tou Efesiou str., Athens 11527, Greece. kontange@hol.gr.
Konstantinos
K
Kontoangelos
Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, 74 Vas. Sofias Ave., Athens 11528, Greece. sofiatsiori@gmail.com.
Sofia
S
Tsiori
Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, 74 Vas. Sofias Ave., Athens 11528, Greece. kkoundi@med.uoa.gr.
Kalliopi
K
Koundi
Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, 74 Vas. Sofias Ave., Athens 11528, Greece. xpappa@med.uoa.gr.
Xenia
X
Pappa
Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, 74 Vas. Sofias Ave., Athens 11528, Greece. psakkas@med.uoa.gr.
Pavlos
P
Sakkas
Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, 74 Vas. Sofias Ave., Athens 11528, Greece.|University Mental Health Research Institute, 27 Soranou tou Efesiou str., Athens 11527, Greece.
Charalambos C
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Papageorgiou
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult