Anxiety and depression among law students: current knowledge and future directions.
Increased psychology-law collaboration has yielded great strides over the past 20 years. However, one area of research that remains overlooked involves the psychological well-being of law students. The purpose of this article is to review and evaluate the existing literature on anxiety and depression among law students. This literature suggests that self-reports of anxiety and depression are significantly higher among law students than among either the general population or medical students. Recommendations for advancing knowledge in this area include developing hypothesis-driven research, using measures that adequately discriminate between anxiety and depression, and testing alternative hypotheses regarding the origins of law student distress.
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Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming, Laramie 82071-3415, USA.
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D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012307:Risk Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*