What are college students thinking about? Apparently, aside from their job prospects, they’re thinking about the sex-ed they get in school. Recently a study conducted by 39 Health Web, Chinese College Students Online and Beiqing Web discovered that nearly half of Chinese college students frequently suffer from intense pressure, slight depression and boredom. 40% believe that this pressure comes from the difficulty of finding jobs. The remaining sixty percent, however, blamed their difficulties on the unsatisfactory sex-ed offered on campus.

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Half of College Students Often Feel Depressed

Confidence and optimism should be part of every college students’ psychological make-up, but according to research, over 10% often lack confidence and 5.6% often feel self-abased; only 30% who said they were confident or very confident.

Over fifty percent of the students surveyed said that they often feel upset, depressed or bored. 30% said they were rather calm most of the time, but only 7% said they were happy.

40% of College Students Blame Pressure on Finding Jobs

Sixty percent of college students who discussed the pressure of finding a job, a topic frequently discussed in the media, said that they feel the pressure, but are able to deal with it. 10% found the pressure unbearable, while 20% said that they do not feel any pressure at all. Forty percent attributed their stress mainly to the difficulty of finding a job. Other reasons for the stress were studying, emotional problems and relationship problems.

College Students Learn about Sex Most Online

Most college students now have rather open attitudes toward the sensitive subject of sex. Seventy percent of students were accepting of premarital sex and only ten percent said they were absolutely opposed. Forty percent of students view one-night stands as a relatively common occurrence and 30% said they were opposed to this type of behavior.

The research found that half of college students had had sexual intercourse. This group of students also did not care about the amount of sex their partner had in the past. Forty five percent of students said they did not regret their past sexual experiences and of these students, half had not had any sexual education whatsoever. Twenty percent of these people had only received sex-ed in middle school biology class. Sixty percent of students said that they were unsatisfied with the state of sexual education in the Chinese school system.

According to the study, the majority of the information about sexual health came from the internet. This made up sixty-two percent of the survey participants. The other two main means through which the students learned about sex were discussions with friends and literature and movies. This study has shown that many people throughout society and in schools are concerned with the lack of sexual education in China.

The experts noted that even though the average age of the students in the study was approximately twenty, these students showed both biological and psychological immaturity. Over the years, society has completely ignored college students’ psychological problems and this has resulted in self-deprecation and a lack of confidence that makes it difficult to deal with competition and setbacks. This lack of confidence has also led to extreme behavior when these students are in high-stress environments. The research also should that the majority of students who have stopped or dropped out of school have down so because of psychological problems. Furthermore, they found that suicide due to lack of confidence, relationship problems and frustration has become the leading abnormal cause of death among college students.

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