College students these days are sometimes called snowflakes. A new survey conducted at Arizona State University explains why. It seems 25 percent of students surveyed displayed symptoms similar to PTSD after the 2016 election. Isn’t that kind of sad?
The Daily Mail reports:
25% of students say they were traumatized by the 2016 election, study says
A quarter of students found the 2016 so traumatic they now report symptoms of PTSD, according to a new study.
Researchers surveyed Arizona State University students around the time of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017, and some had stress scores on par with that of school shooting witnesses’ seven-month follow-ups.
Twenty-five percent of the 769 students, who were an even mix of genders and races and socioeconomic backgrounds, reported ‘clinically significant’ levels of stress.
The most severe cases were seen among women, black, and non-white Hispanic students, who were 45 percent more likely to feel distressed by the 2016 run between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Lead researcher Melissa Hagan, an assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State University, believes the ‘divisive tone’ about race, identity, and what makes a valuable American ‘really heightened stress for a lot of people’.
What are these emotionally frail people going to do if Republicans sweep the midterms? And what about 2020?
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