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The Impact of Depression on Academic Success and Academic Help-Seeking Attitudes

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Conference

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Location

Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Cornucopia #2

Tagged Division

First-Year Programs

Page Count

16

DOI

10.18260/1-2--35329

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https://peer.asee.org/35329

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5274

Paper Authors

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Mary E. Goodwin University of South Florida

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Dr. Goodwin, who has engineering degrees in industrial and environmental engineering, is the Director of Student Services in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida. She worked in industry for nine years and more than 25 years in higher education, focusing on engineering education.

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Abstract

Retention of college students is a high priority for universities across the country. Educators are constantly looking for ways to retain students and to help them perform well in school. While academic success has typically been predicted by standardized test scores and high school performance, they do not fully explain the variance in students’ success. This study looks at additional predictor variables in relation to students’ success including attitudes toward psychological and academic help seeking and level of depressive symptoms. A survey of 582 students revealed that avoidance orientation help seeking attitudes, negative attitudes towards psychological help seeking and depressive symptoms adversely affected students’ cumulative grade point average.

Goodwin, M. E. (2020, June), The Impact of Depression on Academic Success and Academic Help-Seeking Attitudes Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--35329

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