“Anxiety, depression, and insomnia were the most frequent stress-related symptoms” reported among professors in a survey conducted by the American Psychological Association. The data showed that marriage and children typically produced more stress for women on the faculty than for their male counterparts. On the other hand, almost half of the single men among the respondents said they were depressed. (A generation later, in a sign of how the academic labor market had changed amid tightening budgets, a national survey showed that “faculty members are feeling stressed out and strapped for time to teach.”) In other news from 1980, we noted that “candidates get poor grades from political scientists” assessing the presidential campaign that fall.
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