SnaPsy, 2024

A primary objective of the proposed study is to monitor the mental health of students in Germany. Concurrently, resources and resilience factors are to be assessed. Additionally, psychological stressors arising from academic demands and labor market uncertainties are to be identified. Furthermore, it is of interest to ascertain the extent to which global crises affect the mental health of students and to delineate the psychological, institutional, or systemic barriers and catalysts that facilitate or impede the assumption of responsibility regarding crisis management and particularly climate protection. In this context, trust in science and belief in conspiracy theories are also considered as resilience factors or coping indicators. Finally, the study aims to investigate to what extent students become susceptible to conspiracy theories due to crisis-related events in society and how their mental well-being may mitigate such influences. Given that this is an exploratory survey, no hypotheses are preregistered.