New Study on Mental Health of Students at Center of Pandemic

A new study documents the extreme mental health problems students experienced during the spring 2020 semester as the pandemic first took hold.

A team of Montclair State University faculty members surveyed more than 4,700 students at public and private institutions in New York and New Jersey at a time when those states were at the center of the coronavirus outbreak.

Among the findings:

• Three-quarters of the sample reported feeling more anxious than before.
• Sixty-eight percent reported sleep problems.
• Sixty percent reported feeling hopeless.

The study was published in the journal Emerging Adulthood.