From college students’ mental health challenges throughout the pandemic to the Golden Globes, here are this week’s top insights.
Mental Health
Our recent survey of 500 undergraduates finds that nearly 7 in 10 (68%) students overall say the pandemic is negatively affecting their mental health. This number peaked in November, when 80% of students said the same. As our data has shown all year, female students are more likely than male students to report experiencing negative mental health effects related to COVID-19 (74% vs. 59%).
Crying Over Assignments
Focusing on school during a global pandemic has been difficult for many. In a survey fielded this month, 78% of students say they have been so stressed over a school assignment that they’ve cried. Female students are more likely than male students to admit feeling this way (95% vs. 56%).
Golden Globes
The announcement of Emily in Paris’ Golden Globes nomination sparked outrage online — but a majority (68%) of college students have never even heard of the show. Male students are more likely than female students to say they aren’t familiar with the Netflix hit (80% vs. 58%), but just 5% of both male and female students agree that it deserved a nomination.
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Methodology: All surveys were designed and conducted by College Pulse. Interviews were conducted among a sample of full-time and part-time students attending colleges or universities in the U.S. who are part of College Pulse’s American College Student Panel.
