The Gendered Impact of Depression on Undergraduate Students' Research Gains: Can More Competent Mentors Help?

ABSTRACT: There are serious concerns about mental health on college campuses. Depression negatively impacts college student success. Women and transgender/gender-nonconforming students suffer from depression at higher rates than men. While undergraduate research is a high-impact practice, we know little about how depression affects outcomes among undergraduate researchers with different gender identities. To investigate this, we use data from n = 516 students participating in n = 78 Summer 2022 NSF REU Sites programs via the NSF-sponsored Mentor-Relate project. We used gender-stratified generalized estimating equations that nest students within their REU Sites to predict research gains for men and women and transgender/gender-nonconforming students. Greater depression was negatively as

SUBMITTER: Grineski SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11974527 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature