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• TITLE: The Anthropological Contribution of How University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg Campus) Students Express Their State of Being Depressed

  AUTHORS: Dr Lungile Prudence Zondi, Sinenhlanhla Santa Mthembu

  KEYWORDS: Depression, Student(s), University, Language, Interventions

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Anthropology, Vol.13 No.1, February 28, 2023

  ABSTRACT: The paper presents how students from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg campus) (UKZN-PMB) express their state of being depressed. Through theoretical frameworks such as the cognitive theory of depression, narrative theory and social constructivism theory, this interpretive/phenomenological qualitative anthropological study purposively sampled twenty-five UKZN-PMB students to record how they express their state of being depressed. This study revealed that students from different socio-economic backgrounds experience depression, but they use a concealed dialect (slang language) to express their state of being depressed. This study shows social constructs as an expression that university students use as their language to express depression. Depression expressions that were revealed and explored in this study revealed that depression cannot only be understood from the lens of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMV), but also through emic/explanatory models that convey the impact or the extent of depression on university students. This paper recommends that universities should pay attention to culturally specific/uncommon foreign languages in order to implement programmes that respond to depression.