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January 17, 2010
More students may be dealing with anxiety, other mental health issues.
The AP (1/11, Irvine) reports that "five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era," according to a study to be published in the Clinical Psychology Review.
Investigators "analyzed the responses of 77,576 high school or college students who, from 1938 through 2007, took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, or MMPI." The researchers found that, altogether, "an average of five times as many students in 2007 surpassed thresholds in one or more mental health categories, compared with those who did so in 1938."
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- More of today's youth have serious mental health issues than previous generations, study finds ," Martha Irvine, Reno Gazette-Journal, January 11, 2010.
Posted by admin at January 17, 2010 05:23 PM