From vaccine selfies to political awareness, here are this week’s top college student insights.
Vaccine Selfies
With COVID-19 vaccines becoming available to more Americans, a new survey of 650 undergraduates finds that students don’t feel strongly about the vaccine selfies taking over social media. A majority (59%) of students say they don’t care about the photos, compared to 1 in 5 (20%) who say they love seeing everyone’s vaccine selfies. A small fraction of students (14%) report liking the selfies but say seeing the photos makes them a little jealous, and just 6% hate seeing the selfies.
There is a gender gap, though. Female students are more likely than male students to say they love seeing the vaccine posts (25% vs. 13%), and less likely to say they don’t care either way (53% vs. 65%).
How do you feel about people posting vaccine selfies on social media?
Few students plan on posting a selfie when they get vaccinated, suggesting that the trend is more popular among older adults. Just 8% of students who plan to get vaccinated say they’ll definitely post one, compared to 63% who say they definitely won’t. Male students who will get vaccinated are more likely than their female classmates to say they definitely won’t post a vaccine selfie (74% vs. 54%).
Political Awareness
A new survey of 1,088 undergraduates finds that one-quarter (24%) say they can’t name a single U.S. senator. Another quarter (26%) say they can name one or two, compared to just 10% who believe they can name more than 10 senators. However, female students are twice as likely as male students to say they can’t name any U.S. senators (32% vs. 15%).
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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.
