This graph was taken from the Walsemann, Gee, and Gentile article titled, Sick of Our Loans: Student borrowing and the mental health of young adults in the United States. This graph was created by them using data collected by their study in order to show the relationship between predicted psychological functioning and amount of student loans, while also keeping in mind the parental net worth. While writing the first rough draft of my paper, I focused on how the privatization of higher education was generally affecting students, but through further reading and analysis of my sources, along with discussing my paper with Professor Geoller, I saw a different general thesis for my paper. The financial class of a student was something discussed in almost all of my sources, but I failed to include this heavily in my paper. This graph, along with a lot of other information I have found, is steering the direction of my paper more towards how the privatization of higher education is increasing the stress of lower class students and the implications that come along with that, along with the fact that lower class students are financially worse off because of it. This graph is a key example of what I am talking about.
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