Are We Producing Emotionally Drained Graduates?

Low performance may not always mean slow reception to being a slow-learner but might as well be because of the recession and the great amount of stress it gives to families as well as their students.

The previous data which indicated high school pressure and stress is now at decline rate compared to the levels of emotional and mental stress encountered by most students in college.

The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010, which involves incoming full time students at four year colleges nationwide showed a downfall in emotional health of students from 64 percent into 52 percent. Annually, women has degrading positive outlook on emotional health compared to men and continues to widen.

Today’s college students are like schooling parents – worrying too much on how to pay college, cope with their debt, and distracted by their parent’s unemployment. The recession has been the major cause of emotional problem with regards to students.

Brian Van Brunt, Western Kentucky University director of counseling, have been seeing such problem a while and said that student step on their campus with problems, need for economic support, and loans are putting too much weight on them as they hope for a career which will lift their status in the future.

Students are also pressuring themselves by aiming high and the determination to be successful while their emotional health declines, their academic will is set to burning up. At age of 15 or 16, they are thinking of earning an MBA degree as the only way to have a successful career.

Definitely this generation is becoming very competitive with students fired up with the will of staying on top. The consequence is low mental and emotional health brought by enormous pressures internal and external in nature. Are we going the right way? Or will this set of graduates become robot like successful individuals?