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Rhea A. Papasin
Depression is a medical condition that can affect a student's ability to work, study,
interact with peers, or take care of themselves. Symptoms of depression may include:
difficulty sleeping or sleeping too much, appetite changes, withdrawing from participating
suicide. Due to the high prevalence of depression in students, DeRoma et al., (2009), it
sufferers live without impairment. Depression can appear gradually or suddenly with
varying reasons including life events, academic pressures, and lack of social support,
Addis, Truax & Jacobson (1995). The aforementioned symptoms can have damaging
performance.
buffer to damaging effects, (DeRoma et al., 2009). They found that moderate depression
Average (GPA). GPA is a snapshot evaluation of how an individual has performed in one
a snapshot GPA can be influenced by many biases such as content, interest or daily
mood. For further research to determine whether depression negatively affects academic
Decreased academic performance in depressed patients has also been found with
both objective and subjective measures; GPA and thoughts about academic
performance. It was found that subjective measures correlated higher with decreased
academic performance than objective measures, even though they were both significant.
With more accurate reports from subjective measures, understanding an individual’s own
perspective on the reasons behind their depression will help explain the difference in
change. Many college students suffer from this. It has become increasingly predominant,
many stating these mental health issues as their biggest barriers to do well in school
mental health and training which every individual have to perform in all cultures has
become an important goal of the educational process which I think needs to have an
improvement in mental services and resources for university students. Easily accessible
mental health services and educating students about the benefits of seeking interventions
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among-college-students.
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N_STUDENTS'_ACADEMIC_PERFORMANCE.
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