{"id":47408,"date":"2015-06-02T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=47408"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:33:48","slug":"the-1-problem-among-college-students-is-now-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/the-1-problem-among-college-students-is-now-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"The #1 Problem Among College Students Is Now Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For many years the number one problem among college students was depression. In an ever growing competitive atmosphere, the biggest concern in higher education has shifted to anxiety.<\/p>\n

According to a\u00a0recent study<\/a>\u00a0by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State, of the 100,000 college student observed, more than half of students seeking help at campus clinics reported anxiety as an issue.<\/p>\n

Researchers spoke with mental health counselors at various colleges and found that students are having a harder time dealing with the stress of college than previous generations.<\/p>\n

The main cause of this anxiety? Helicopter parents.<\/p>\n

“They can’t tolerate discomfort or having to struggle,” Dan Jones, director of counseling and psychological services at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, told the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0“A primary symptom is worrying, and they don’t have the ability to soothe themselves.”<\/p>\n

In 2010, a national study showed that\u00a0nearly half of college students seeking counseling had serious mental illness. Those students outnumbered a 2000 study by 100%.<\/p>\n

Another study in 2010 from the\u00a0American College Counseling Association discovered that\u00a024% of college students seeking mental-health help in college were on psychiatric medication compared to 17% in 2000.<\/p>\n

Other symptoms of college life include\u00a0stress, family, academic performance, and relationship problems.<\/p>\n

The following chart showcases the main issues faced by today’s college students:<\/p>\n

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For many years the number one problem among college students was depression. In an ever growing competitive atmosphere, the biggest concern in higher education has shifted to anxiety. According to a\u00a0recent study\u00a0by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State, of the 100,000 college student observed, more than half of students seeking help at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":47412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2530,7663,7661,7662,3226],"class_list":{"0":"post-47408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-anxiety","9":"tag-college-anxiety","10":"tag-college-stress","11":"tag-college-students","12":"tag-stress"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76742,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47408\/revisions\/76742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}