The mental health of higher education students and the role of finances and debt

我博士学位的总体目标是调查学生的心理健康，以及它与非学生同行的心理健康有何不同。我的假设是，参加高等教育并不是年轻人心理健康问题的因果风险因素。然而，尽管患病率相似，但学生群体中的精神健康问题可能存在不同的风险因素，其中几个因素可能是可以改变的，在机构控制范围内有明确的干预途径。其中一个风险因素是大学生的经济状况，因此我假设，经济状况越差，大学生的心理健康状况就越差。

The overall aim of my PhD is to investigate the mental health of students and how it may differ from that of their non-student counterparts. My hypothesis is that participating in higher education is not a causal risk factor for mental health problems in young people. Nevertheless, despite similar prevalence, there may be different risk factors for mental health problems within the student population, and several of these are likely to be modifiable, with clear avenues for intervention within institutions' control. One such risk factor is university students' financial situation, such that I hypothesise that a worse financial situation would be associated with worse mental health in university students.