ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1627192
Mental Health and Academic Performance of Students at Tertiary Level: The Role of Housing
Provisionally accepted
- 1Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
- 2Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
- 3Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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This study was designed to investigate the impact of inappropriate housing on the emotional well-being and academic performance of university students. Cognitive development, mental health outcomes, and educational achievements of children are significantly influenced by the quality of their housing situations. A cross-sectional study was undertaken, employing a sample size of 211 individuals, encompassing both undergraduate and graduate university students. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of inadequate housing and mental health on students' academic performance, using a validated survey tool. The findings from the structural equation model show that inadequate housing is significantly associated with poorer mental health among students underscoring housing quality as a critical social determinant of student well-being in Pakistan. Additionally, mental health shows a positive influence on academic performance indicating that poor housing indirectly affects students' academic performance by negatively impacting their mental health.
Keywords: Inappropriate housing, Mental Health, academic performance, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation model
Received: 12 May 2025; Accepted: 31 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Maqbool, Farooq, Imran, Alghafli and Fatima. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Muhammad Farooq, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
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