The annual Higher Education Research Institute survey says college freshmen who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or queer are likely to report having felt depressed at rates two to six times as high as freshmen who identify as straight.
The percentage of college freshmen who are likely to report frequently feeling overwhelmed or depressed has grown in recent years, and first-year college students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or queer are between two and six times as likely to report having those feelings, the results of an annual survey show.
According to the survey by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, of 141,189 full-time college students at 199 four-year colleges in the United States, 32.6 percent of students who identify as heterosexual/straight are likely to report having often felt overwhelmed in the past year, and 8 percent are likely to report having felt depressed.
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