This study of international students at the National University of Singapore found that students under more psychological stress were more likely to want to seek mental health help, and that better mental health knowledge helped explain this link.
This is an introduction to a special collection of papers on hikikomori (prolonged social withdrawal), looking at how it is assessed, treated, and addressed by communities in different countries.
Using an international ageing database, this study looked at gaps between people’s ‘thinking age’ and ‘physical age’ compared with their real age, and how these gaps relate to mild memory problems and related behaviour changes.
This study compared personality traits between 60 Singaporean teenagers who had attempted suicide and 58 who hadn’t, finding that other mental health conditions, recent stressful events, feeling rejected by parents, and certain difficult personality traits were more common among those who had attempted suicide.
In a large online survey of over 12,000 Chinese college students under home quarantine, about 1 in 15 showed signs of stress-related trauma symptoms 39 days into the COVID-19 outbreak. Past stressful experiences, lower resilience, and weaker social support all made this more likely.
In a study of 902 older Singaporeans, about 1 in 5 had mild memory problems, and these could be grouped into three types based on their emotional outlook — mostly positive, negative, or neutral. Those with a negative outlook had less education, less social support, and more depression, possibly putting them at higher risk of further decline.
This case study describes Singapore’s first specialised programme for ‘hidden youth’ — young people who withdraw from society for six months or more — combining approaches from Japan, Hong Kong, and treatment for gaming addiction, delivered to 25 young people over two years.
