The influence of mental health and campus climate on the academic engagement, academic disengagement, and academic success of queer-spectrum college students
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Greathouse, Maren. The influence of mental health and campus climate on the academic engagement, academic disengagement, and academic success of queer-spectrum college students. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-mfm2-1705
TitleThe influence of mental health and campus climate on the academic engagement, academic disengagement, and academic success of queer-spectrum college students
DescriptionThe mental health of queer-spectrum college students, and the campus climate they traverse, exert significant influence on the academic engagement, disengagement, and success for this population. Two-thirds of queer-spectrum college students reported a mental health condition, and these students had a more unfavorable perception of the campus climate for diversity than their mentally healthy queer spectrum peers. Mental health—mediated through campus climate—had a negative relationship to collaborative learning, but students were no less academically involved in the classroom. Mental health—mediated through campus climate—also had a negative relationship to extracurricular engagement and grade point average, and a positive relationship with poor academic habits. This study includes directions for future research and recommendations for practice, including auditing institutions to assess equity in the living and learning environment, targeted queer-spectrum support services, risk reduction and psychoeducational programming, anti-bias/ally training, peer mentoring opportunities, access to—and quality of care—with physical and mental health service providers, off-campus support, and academic support.