The Road to Recovery: A Two-Year Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Health Among University Students During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Longitudinal research into the impact of COVID-19 on university students' mental health beyond the pandemic is lacking. This study aims to address the gap in the literature by tracking the mental health of university students over a two-year period, spanning the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. A two-year longitudinal study surveyed a sample of university students ( = 302) three times between May 2020 and May 2022.

The Hummingbird Project year 2: decreasing distress and fostering flourishing in a pragmatic pre-post study.

Multi-component Positive Psychology Interventions (mPPIs) in secondary schools have been shown to improve mental health outcomes for young people. The Hummingbird Project mPPI is a six-week program of workshops designed to introduce a variety of positive psychology (PP) concepts to secondary school-aged children in schools to improve well-being, resilience, and hope. The effects on mental distress, however, were not explored.

An international validation of the Bolton Unistride Scale (BUSS) of tenacity.

Academic success at University is increasingly believed to be a combination of personal characteristics like grit, resilience, strength-use, self-control, mind-set and wellbeing. The authors have developed a short 12-item measure of tenacity, the Bolton Uni-Stride Scale (BUSS) which incorporates these elements. Previous work in the UK had established the reliability and validity of the BUSS.

European university students' mental health during Covid-19: Exploring attitudes towards Covid-19 and governmental response.

Unlabelled: The effects of Covid-19 have been felt worldwide and one population that are of increasing concern are university students. University students have endured unique and drastic changes to their everyday and academic lives. It is important to understand how university students in different parts of the world have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and how it has affected their mental health? A cross-sectional study was conducted during the first wave of Covid-19, in May 2020 with 2,006 university students from the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain.

Nucleases are upregulated in potato tubers afflicted with zebra chip disease.

The defense response of potato tubers afflicted with zebra chip disease involves oxidatively mediated upregulation of nucleases that likely modulate localized programmed cell death to restrict the phloem-mobile, CLso bacterial pathogen to the vasculature. Zebra chip (ZC) is a bacterial disease of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) caused by Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (CLso).