{"id":61279,"date":"2014-02-07T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=61279"},"modified":"2014-06-09T01:11:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T06:11:16","slug":"does-stymied-educational-attainment-lead-to-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/07\/does-stymied-educational-attainment-lead-to-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Stymied Educational Attainment Lead to Depression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular quote urges us to shoot for the moon: even if we miss, it tells us, we\u2019ll land among the stars. According to new research,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0003122409357064\">there\u2019s more to it<\/a>\u00a0than cheesy inspiration. Using data from two waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, sociologist John Reynolds and Chardie Baird test the common notion that failing to attain as much education as expected is associated with symptoms of depression in early\/middle adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>First, their results show that individuals with lower levels of education <em>are<\/em> more likely to exhibit signs of depression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-36.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61280\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-36-500x315.png\" alt=\"Screenshot (36)\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-36-500x315.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-36.png 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>But<\/em>, further statistical wrangling shows that their depression doesn\u2019t come from the gap between plans and achievement. It comes from the low level of educational attainment in itself.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds and Baird conclude that there are no long-term emotional costs to aiming high and falling short when it comes to educational aspirations. This contradicts decades of research that holds that unmet educational expectations lead to psychological distress. In fact, not trying is the only way to ensure lower levels of education and increased chances of poor mental health. So, go ahead and shoot for that moon.<\/p>\n<div><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hollienysethbrehm.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollie\u00a0Nyseth Brehm<\/a> is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Minnesota. \u00a0She is the graduate editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Society Pages<\/a>. \u00a0This post originally appeared at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/discoveries\/stars-strife-and-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contexts Discoveries<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular quote urges us to shoot for the moon: even if we miss, it tells us, we\u2019ll land among the stars. According to new research,\u00a0there\u2019s more to it\u00a0than cheesy inspiration. Using data from two waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, sociologist John Reynolds and Chardie Baird test the common notion that failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":61391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,329,252,273],"class_list":["post-61279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-emotion","tag-healthmedicine","tag-mental-illness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/1-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62861,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions\/62861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}