Association between mental health self-care status and well-being-promoting behaviors among university students living in rural areas

Airi Endo; Sayuri Goryoda

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0334221

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Association between mental health self-care status and well-being-promoting behaviors among university students living in rural areas

Airi Endo,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Integrated Food and Agricultural Science, Department of Food, Life and Environmental Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Agriculture, Tsuruoka-shi, Yamagata, Japan
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Sayuri Goryoda

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: goryoda@tds1.tr.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Integrated Food and Agricultural Science, Department of Food, Life and Environmental Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Agriculture, Tsuruoka-shi, Yamagata, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2535-1782

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Association between mental health self-care status and well-being-promoting behaviors among university students living in rural areas

Airi Endo,
Sayuri Goryoda

Published: October 15, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334221

About the Authors

Airi Endo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Integrated Food and Agricultural Science, Department of Food, Life and Environmental Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Agriculture, Tsuruoka-shi, Yamagata, Japan

Sayuri Goryoda

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: goryoda@tds1.tr.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Integrated Food and Agricultural Science, Department of Food, Life and Environmental Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Agriculture, Tsuruoka-shi, Yamagata, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2535-1782

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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