The emotional health of college fresher’s who feel stressed by the pressures at high school level has declined to the lowest level, by last 25 years an annual survey of incoming students to colleges started collecting data. The therapists met the students at Student activities room at Stony Brook University’s Health Services Building.
In the survey, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” involving more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges, the percentage of students rating themselves as “below average” by their emotional health. It means the percentage of students, who said their emotional health was above average fell to 52 percent, as compare to 1985 survey.
In the survey, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” involving more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges, the percentage of students rating themselves as “below average” by their emotional health. It means the percentage of students, who said their emotional health was above average fell to 52 percent, as compare to 1985 survey.
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Campus counselors says that the survey results are the best witness of what they would see every day in their offices, the students who are depressed, under stress and using psychiatric medication, prescribed even before they attend to college. The economy has only added to the stress, not just because of financial pressures on their parents but also because the students are worried about their own college debt and job prospects.
More students are arriving on campus with problems, needs support, and today’s economic factors are putting a lot of stress on college students, as they look at their loans and wonder if there will be a career waiting for them on the other side”.
While first-year students’ assessments of their emotional health were declining, their ratings of their own drive to achieve, and academic ability, have been going up, and reached a record high in 2010, with about three-quarters saying they were above average.
“Students know their generation is likely to be less successful than their parents’, so they feel more pressure to succeed than in the past,” said Jason Ebbeling, director of residential education at Southern Oregon University. “These days, students worry that even with a college degree they won’t find a job that pays more than minimum wage, so even at 15 or 16 they’re thinking they’ll need to get into an M.B.A. program or Ph.D. program”.
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