Student And Depression Essay

Is there a big difference between students and depression ten years ago compared to depressed students today? In our society these days, it is unfortunately very common for students to be depressed, this depression can severely influence their grades and academic performance. However, you may think to yourself; what does a student have to be depressed about? The answer is that there are millions of things that could possibly contribute to a student being depressed whether you know it or not.

For instance, it could be little things such as, getting a bad grade on a test or an assignment that they worked hard on. Alternatively, it could be big things like, failing a class, or the fact that a relative has just passed away. It could be one thing,

Two case studies have proved that too be true, they are about ten years apart but they are very different in the methods that they have used. The first case study consisted of 700 students that were in there second year of high school compared to the second case study that consisted of 330 undergraduate students from Western Michigan University. The methods used by the first case study were two different questionaries’ the first questionnaire was designed for the students to measure there depression. It consisted on 18 items score on a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from one to five, one being strongly disagree and five being strongly agree. The second questionnaire was for the teachers this questionnaire was used to take the teachers responses about the student’s performances. The second questionnaire was set up the same as the students one being never or poor and five being very often or excellent in regarding the student’s performances. The second case study also used a survey method but it contained 68 questions that were organized into seven sections. The sections included details in academic experiences, employment status, demographic characteristics, health care evaluation, health status and productivity impairment related to depression and other health disorders. The surveys for the second case study are a lot more specific and probably helped obtain better results to help answer this question than the questionaries’ from the first case