مستويات الصحة النفسية العامة لدى الشباب في المجتمع الجزائري-من خلال الشدة النفسية كمؤشر للصحة النفسية

الملخص EN

The study aimed to identify the levels of general h psychological health of a sample of Algerian young people as an indication to understand their current situation and to identify the extent of cohesion and adaptation of the Algerian society and its youth, with the fast continuous social and cultural change that is characteristic of contemporary societies in light of the globalization and its various manifestations.

The study included a sample of 962 young men and women from different faculties of the universities of Batna, Biskra, Alger, in addition to some youth from vocational training centers, Whose ages between 15-30 year(22.

25-+-2.

4, females=72, 65%).

And we used Kissler Psychological Distress scale(K10), After translating and codifying it on the Algerian society, which consists of 10 phrases aimed at revealing the extent psychological Distress and suffering among individuals as an indicator of their affliction or risk of developing a mental health disorder.

The results showed that this measurement has good psychometric properties.

It revealed that more than 23% of the study sample suffers from high degrees of psychological distress(more than 30 degrees) as an indicator of imbalance in psychological health with a high risk of developing anxiety and depression, which is a very dangerous degree, calls for attention of specialists to take care of them.

Whereas the results showed that there were differences in psychological distress according the the sex variables( in favor of females, T=-5.

29 is a statistically significant at the level of 0.

01) and the educational level(in favor of non-university students, T=-2.

17 is statistically significant at the level of 0.

01), While the results of the study of differences in degrees psychological distress in terms of age variables(T=1.

47) and residence location(T=-0.

136) is not significant and it's means there are no differences in psychological distress in terms of these two variables.

These results indicate that the study sample individuals suffer from difficulties and high degrees of anxiety and depression disorder, It is a very small percentage of the global percentage, Which makes us confirm the need to pay attention to this category (young people) and to identify the psychological and social causes and cultural changes associated with the high degree of psychological distress in order to care for them.