Fluctuations in behavior and affect in college students measured using deep phenotyping.

ABSTRACT: College students commonly experience psychological distress when faced with intensified academic demands and changes in the social environment. Examining the nature and dynamics of students' affective and behavioral experiences can help us better characterize the correlates of psychological distress. Here, we leveraged wearables and smartphones to study 49 first-year college students continuously throughout the academic year. Affect and sleep, academic, and social behavior showed substantial changes from school semesters to school breaks and from weekdays to weekends. Three student clusters were identified with behavioral and affective dissociations and varying levels of distress throughout the year. While academics were a common stressor for all, the cluster with highest distress stood ou

SUBMITTER: Vidal Bustamante CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8816914 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature