MENTAL healthGraduate students suffer from issues with mental and emotional wellbeing at a high rate. While most commonly understood as an individual issue, the high prevalence of mental health problems suggests that their causes may extend beyond personal factors. A closer look at the environment ...
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Results: In general, undergraduates reported significantly higher rates of feelings and behaviors related to poor mental health and negative effects on academic performance than graduate students. Graduate students and undergraduate students reported significantly different levels of stress. χ2(4) = ...
is another solution worth exploring. Teresa Evans, a career development office director and lecturer at the University of Texas (US) Health Science Center, advises students to be proactive regarding their mental well-being and to have an action plan at the ready if things ever get serious....
more stable jobs and better professional reputation will have better mental health. However, international studies in the past two or three years have revealed that nearly 40 percent of Ph.D. students suffer from anxiety, depression and other psychological problems," Chen Zhiyan, a pr...
Moreover, mental health data for graduate school students in Japan are lacking. Therefore, the present study attempted to examine differences in graduate school students' mental health according to major, grade, and nationality. Methods A total of 587 students from a Japanese university, which only...
A mental health survey was carried out to the 662 graduate students of the colleges in Nanchang City by using Self-reporting Inventory(SCL-90).Results show that their mental health is not so optimistic.Twenty three point six percent of them have psychological issues.Compared with the national ...
Many graduate students experience mental health struggles that lead them to question their place in academia. Two scientists who experienced extreme lows in graduate school reflect on what helped them during their low points, and suggest strategies for everyone to contribute to mentally healthier work...
Graduate school often requires students to spend many hours absorbed seated, absorbed in studies. This lifestyle can contribute to a variety of health issues, from obesity to heart disease. Besides, the mental and emotional stresses in graduate school often add to the physical challenges, leading ...
Two research questions guided our team of eight Canadian-based PE graduate students: What are our experiences as PE graduate students in Canada? How might we enhance the experience for ourselves and others like us? We hoped that if we worked together to better understand and thrive in our ...