Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine whether depression, social anxiety, state anxiety, and trait anxiety levels of college students who applied to a counseling center differ according to their suicidal thoughts, psychiatric diagnosis, and class standing. Research group consists of a total of 439 college students, 341 women and 98 men. Counseling Center Application Form, Beck Depression Inventory, Liebowitz Social Phobia Scale, and State and Trait Anxiety Scale were used as data collection tools in the study. To test the aims of the research, t-test, ANOVA, and descriptive statistics were used in data analysis. According to the findings, it was observed that 17.1% of the students had minimal depression, 21% had mild, 42.4% had moderate and 19.6% had severe depression; 1.8% had very low social anxiety, 23.5% had low, 40.2% had moderate, 23.5% had high and 10.9% had very high social anxiety; 32% had low state anxiety, 44.6% had moderate, 19.4% had high and 3.9% had very high state anxiety, 15.7% had low trait anxiety, 46.1% had moderate, 32.9% had high and 5.3% had very trait anxiety. It was found that 19.1% of the participants were referred to a psychiatric service, 21.4% had suicidal thoughts, 36% had a psychiatric diagnosis previously. In addition, it was revealed that those who have suicidal thoughts show a significant difference in favor of those who have suicidal thoughts when compared with those who do not have suicidal thoughts in terms of research variables. It was revealed that those who had a psychiatric diagnosis in the past showed a significant difference in terms of study variables in favor of those who had a psychiatric diagnosis compared to those who did not have a psychiatric diagnosis in the past. Finally, it was observed that depression, social anxiety, state, and trait anxiety levels differ significantly according to class standing. This research was approved by Pamukkale University Social and Human Sciences Ethics Committee (23.12.2020; 12-6).

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