Gen Z students are experiencing poor mental health and a lack of hope for the future. (To be honest, I think most generations are).
According to professors who teach Gen Zers, the generation appears even more anxious than their Millennial counterparts and has completely lost hope in the American Dream. Gen Z also reports the poorest mental health of any generation, and only 44 percent of Gen Zers say they feel prepared for the future.
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“The biggest change that I’ve seen is they have this fear of failure or making the wrong decision, and I think it’s because they just don’t want to go through more mental anguish,” Matt Prince, an adjunct professor at Chapman University, told Fortune.
Prince added that Gen Z seems to have a “huge weight on their shoulders.”
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