These facts encourage many researchers to examine the issue of mental health and unhealthy patterns of behaviour in a population group of university students, and their significant findings are presented in the following section of this study. The importance of this issue is also captured in the presented study, the purpose of which was to examine the mental well-being and risky behaviour of Slovak university students in the socio-economic context of their perceived stress, depression, and alcohol consumption. This study focuses not only on mapping the current situation and examining the effects within the analysed mental and behavioural disorders, but especially on identifying possible practical implications and interventions that may improve the situation in the future.
