July 13, 2001
College Students and the Web of Anxiety
Anxiety in college students has reached record levels. In fact, as I reported in an article in December's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, anxiety that would have put a student in the top 16 percent in the 1950's made a student merely average in the ratings for anxiety in the 1990's. Students' anxiety began to rise in the early 1950's, and the increase has continued at a steady pace ever since.
The change helps explain the expansion in caseloads at college counseling
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