Ansiedade e espiritualidade em estudantes universitários

Abstract

The research theme is spirituality in the university environment, specifically with regard to anxiety. University students are inserted in a locus whose time and space is transitory and decisive for their future life. The insertion in this environment is shown as a moment of rupture, in the sense of transition that can lead to the direction of all future life. As a result, the university period, being a time of choice, decision, pressure to decide about one’s future, can lead to disorders such as anxiety. The question that arises is how spirituality can help in the process of relieving the anxiety of university students. Based on bibliographic research, we seek to understand what anxiety is, what spirituality is, the relationship between them, as well as who this public of university students is. One seeks to highlight not only individual spirituality in the academic environment, but also as a curricular component or cross-cutting theme for courses related to health. With that, it problematizes the formation of the health professional in the sense of privileging a wholistic view of people, not only aiming at the corporal/physiological health, but also psychological and spiritual. It also problematizes the space of the University Ministry and its spiritual care service. It concludes that the person's spirituality helps in the processes of relief in the face of anxiety insofar as it allows self-knowledge and makes the person aware of their dimension beyond the body.