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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Depressed Online

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A Berkeley study finds undergraduates and graduate students who are having trouble with online education at various unnamed public universities are also more likes to be depressed and anxious. Maybe this isn't a surprising finding. Yours truly is not an expert in psychology or the particular instruments used in the survey. However, abrupt changes in plans - in-person vs. online - can't be helping the situation.

The study is at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80k5d5hw

A brief summary appears in https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/08/19/students-reporting-depression-and-anxiety-higher-rates

The way it was: (back in 1962 - Haines Hall)

The way some people thought it might be:

The way it is turning out to be:


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