TABLE 4.
Linear regression estimates for mental health and well‐being outcomes
Mental health score | Life satisfaction score | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All | Male | Female | All | Male | Female | ||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | ||
Personal resiliency | No worry for self | −0.569*** | −0.628*** | −0.549*** | 0.375*** | 0.222 | 0.416*** |
(0.123) | (0.265) | (0.140) | (0.112) | (0.255) | (0.124) | ||
Family health risk | 0.566*** | 0.708*** | 0.474*** | −0.123 | −0.517** | 0.028 | |
(0.129) | (0.263) | (0.147) | (0.113) | (0.238) | (0.128) | ||
Food insecure | 0.630*** | 0.365 | 0.710*** | −0.862*** | −0.883*** | −0.858*** | |
(0.157) | (0.322) | (0.181) | (0.148) | (0.345) | (0.160) | ||
Housing insecure | 0.876*** | 0.624 | 0.929*** | −0.947*** | −0.175 | −1.230*** | |
(0.223) | (0.443) | (0.247) | (0.183) | (0.394) | (0.197) | ||
Grad school | 0.155 | 1.113** | −0.069 | 0.057 | −0.084 | 0.078 | |
(0.269) | (0.550) | (0.310) | (0.240) | (0.495) | (0.273) | ||
Environmental resilience | Felt connected | −1.393*** | −1.009*** | −1.589*** | 0.525*** | 0.259 | 0.622*** |
(0.121) | (0.227) | (0.144) | (0.113) | (0.229) | (0.130) | ||
Experienced discrimination | 0.344*** | 0.509*** | 0.265*** | −0.218*** | −0.171 | −0.230*** | |
(0.078) | (0.151) | (0.091) | (0.072) | (0.136) | (0.084) | ||
Online spring exp. | −0.957*** | −0.838*** | −1.000*** | 0.519*** | 0.678*** | 0.464*** | |
(0.120) | (0.235) | (0.141) | (0.104) | (0.216) | (0.122) | ||
Liberal leaning | 1.155*** | 0.243 | 1.405*** | −0.955*** | −1.017 | −0.975*** | |
(0.295) | (0.618) | (0.339) | (0.269) | (0.616) | (0.302) | ||
Demographic characteristics | Female | 1.333*** | — | — | −0.273 | — | — |
(0.272) | |||||||
(0.291) | |||||||
Race—white | −0.030 | 1.264 | −0.487 | 0.805 | 0.542 | 1.077* | |
(0.536) | (0.981) | (0.642) | (0.507) | (0.957) | (0.586) | ||
Race—black | −1.489 | 0.427 | −1.961* | 0.308 | −0.308 | 0.585 | |
(1.009) | (1.756) | (1.170) | (0.911) | (2.341) | (1.006) | ||
Race—Asian | −0.894 | −0.971 | −0.893 | 0.254 | −0.277 | 0.639 | |
(0.630) | (1.331) | (0.729) | (0.568) | (1.145) | (0.654) | ||
Race—American Indian | 1.366 | 0.526 | 1.672 | 0.200 | 2.063 | 0.020 | |
(1.050) | (1.775) | (1.268) | (0.834) | (2.234) | (0.900) | ||
Age | −0.039 | −0.029 | −0.046 | −0.035 | −0.061 | −0.034 | |
(0.040) | (0.056) | (0.052) | (0.042) | (0.068) | (0.052) | ||
Hispanic | −0.182 | −0.142 | −0.017 | 0.596 | −0.154 | 0.805* | |
(0.478) | (1.119) | (0.525) | (0.431) | (0.956) | (0.485) | ||
Living with small children | −0.235 | −1.387 | 0.056 | 0.077 | 0.733 | −0.060 | |
(0.500) | (1.026) | (0.573) | (0.501) | (0.956) | (0.588) | ||
Parental household income | −0.045 | −0.039 | −0.047 | 0.124*** | 0.115 | 0.130*** | |
(0.045) | (0.083) | (0.054) | (0.042) | (0.084) | (0.048) | ||
Marital status—single | 0.324 | 0.050 | 0.220 | −0.115 | −0.584 | 0.344 | |
(0.435) | (0.763) | (0.532) | (0.445) | (0.728) | (0.570) | ||
International student | −1.307* | −2.265* | −1.033 | −2.276*** | −0.471 | −3.086*** | |
(0.676) | (1.203) | (0.864) | (0.679) | (1.412) | (0.761) | ||
Constant | 10.962*** | 13.052*** | −1.000** | 11.605*** | 16.642*** | 9.274*** | |
(2.582) | (5.205) | (0.141) | (2.376) | (4.578) | (2.787) | ||
n | 1616 | 412 | 1204 | 1632 | 418 | 1214 | |
R 2 | 0.367 | 0.405 | 0.348 | 0.234 | 0.248 | 0.249 | |
F‐stat | 40.75 | 12.60 | 28.15 | 21.79 | 6.32 | 19.17 |
Note: Standard errors are reported in parentheses and are corrected for heteroskedasticity. The coefficients reported are from a linear regression estimation. We control for university level effects in each specification.
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