Survey on Academic Stress and Mental Health in 608 Chinese Adolescents, 2025

608 adolescents and young adults from southern China participated in a cross-sectional survey between July and September 2025. The data, authored by Pan Ding, shows a 34.38% prevalence of depressive symptoms and an 8.52-fold higher odds of anxiety for those in the highest academic stress quartile. Emotional eating was identified as a potential mediating factor, accounting for 9.98% of the association with anxiety symptoms.

Use Cases

• Modeling dose-response relationships between academic stress and mental health outcomes based on the described logistic regression and restricted cubic spline analyses.
• Investigating the mediating role of emotional eating in stress-mental health pathways as described in the structural equation modeling.
• Analyzing the relative impact of different academic stress dimensions (parental, self-imposed, teacher, social) on anxiety and depression.
• Benchmarking prevalence rates of anxiety (24.18%) and depressive symptoms (34.38%) in a specific adolescent cohort.

Strengths

• Data from 608 participants provides a substantive sample for analysis.
• Academic stress was assessed using a validated multidimensional scale covering four distinct pressure sources.
• Results include specific odds ratios (e.g., OR=8.52 for anxiety) and mediation proportions (e.g., 9.98% for anxiety).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single cross-sectional survey in southern China, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Pan Ding via figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey conducted among adolescents and young adults.

Time Range

Data collected between July and September 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 04:16:40; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern China