Psychological and sociocultural adaptation of medical students from India in Ukraine

International students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds experience personal and academic challenges when studying health sciences in Ukraine. Moving from one academic environment to another and relocating to a new country to study is becoming an increasingly common occurrence. As well as providing cultural and intellectual enrichment, this experience also presents challenges and difficulties. With the increasing number of international students in Ukraine, an understanding of the psychological factors that facilitate adaptation is becoming evermore important. The aim of the present research was to consider elements facilitating or impeding Indian international students’ adaptation to Ukraine. The variables of trait-anxiety, attachment intimacy and attachment anxiety, psychological distress, satisfaction with social support, and cultural identification were measured. Attachment intimacy and trait-anxiety moderated by psychological distress were found to be relevant to the process of adaptation. Co-national identification was also relevant to adaptation for the Indian students

Psychological features of persons with orhorexia nervosa

It is good to eat healthy food. We are encouraged to do so by major medical associations, personal physicians, celebrities, schools, employers, the media and even the government. However, there are a variety of recommendations available regarding what eating healthy means, and some of these are stricter than others. This unhealthy relationship with healthy foods is referred to as orthorexia nervosa from the Greek orthos, meaning “correct or right” and orexia, meaning “appetite.” It is the subject of growing academic research and has become an accepted diagnosis in the mental health community. A person with orthorexia nervosa has become so fixated on eating healthy food that this one goal begins to squeeze out and diminish other important dimensions of life. The purpose of our study was to study the psychological characteristics of persons with orthorexia for further development medical and psychological suppor