Forms of Stress at Tech
College students face many stresses during their four years in school. These stresses include graduating on time, maintaining a respectable grade point average and finding different ways to pay for school. But new studies suggest students are facing new stresses in the form of eating disorders and addictions to gambling.
While eating disorders are typically thought of as a female issue, a new study by the University of Ontario found that one in six anorexics was male, a trend that is on the rise. One of the most well known eating disorders is anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a disorder consisting of habitually starving oneself in an effort to stave off a distorted view of perceived obesity.
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While gambling is illegal in the state of Texas and is strictly prohibited in the Texas Tech student handbook, popular televised tournaments and easy access to online gaming sites have made college gambling a growing problem. A study by the Annenburg Public Policy Center found that 5.6 percent of college students are problem gamblers. The rate is double the rate of the adult population and suggests some 500,000 college students nation wide have a gambling problem. A survey of youth aged 14 to 22 found a 20 percent increase in monthly rates of card gambling in the last year alone.
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