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Annotated Bibliography

Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in College Students

Taylor Medford
Professor Malcolm Campbell
English 1103
March 17, 2016

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Annotated Bibliography
Grohol, John M. "Anxiety." PsychCentral.com. PsychCentral.com, 23 Feb. 2016. Web. 11 Mar.
2016.
This source covers a lot about anxiety and different anxiety disorders that people can
have. The very first paragraph states that anxiety is a normal and necessary part of being
human, but once anxiety becomes excessive and starts to interfere with someones daily
life, they may have developed an anxiety disorder that requires treatment. This
introduction on anxiety is very short and talks about anxiety and symptoms of possible
disorders; however, underneath it has subtitles for different anxiety disorders such as:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, and other Specific Phobias.
All of these topics have a varying amount of information for each and states how they
differ from regular anxiety. This author is very reliable because he has his Doctorate in
Psychology which shows me that he knows what he is talking about. It is a very high
quality academic source, written to provide short and simple yet very knowledgeable
information on anxiety and anxiety disorders. This source is different from my other
sources because it talks more about the facts of individual anxiety disorders. It is more of
an educational and informational way of looking at anxiety disorders, as opposed to being
about people with personal connections to anxiety. This source is very useful to me and
will appear in my final Inquiry Project because of the information it provides me on the
individual disorders. Using the information it gives and what I learn about students with
anxiety in college, I will be able to make connections and my final project will come
together more smoothly.

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Hoffman, Jan. "Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers." The New York Times.
The New York Times, 27 May 2015.
Web. 12 Mar. 2016.
This source is an article in the ever-so-famous newspaper, The New York Times. This
newspaper is famous because it has a lot of credibility, and it read by people all over the
nation. It is a very reliable source for news and information. The points in this article
address how so many students on many different college campus need help and treatment
for anxiety, and how anxiety has become a normal thing to suffer from as a student. The
author provides different personal stories from a few individuals to illustrate the struggle
of anxiety and the importance of getting the right treatment. While the article talks a lot
about how college counseling centers might struggle to treat all of their students who
need it, it also goes into a lot of detail about the impact that anxiety has on students.
Along with the stress of school, this article states that students worry and are unable to
calm themselves down, and that causes their anxiety to worsen. This author that wrote
this is very reliable, as would be any other author who wrote for The New York Times.
She writes objectively about the topic, and simply states the facts and research that she
has learned about the topic. She also quotes many different reliable people, which makes
the quality of this article even greater. The intended audience for this are people who are
interested in learning more about anxiety on college campuses, and the readers of this
newspaper in general. This source is different from my other sources because not only
does it talk about anxiety and the struggles that come with it on college campuses, but it
also gives real life examples from actual students who struggle with it. I will be using this

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source in my final project because of its usefulness to me, and the insight it gives me on
the importance of treating anxiety and the different impacts it has on people.

Laskey, Chastity. "Anxiety on the Rise among College Students." Arizona Daily Wildcat. The
Daily Wildcat, 16 Sept. 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2016.
This source is from a college newsletter in Arizona regarding the rise of anxiety among
students on college campuses. The author goes into detail about the resources that the
campus has in order to help students that are dealing with anxiety and other mental health
disorders. Chastity quotes The Chronical of Higher Education in saying that 58 percent
of college campuses have seen a rise in anxiety disorders. One point of view on why
students are developing serious anxiety is because they are becoming extremely busy and
there is a constant pressure for them to perform well in and out of their schooling. The
majority of the article, however, discusses the counseling center that is on that particular
college campus, and the resources that students have to help them deal with their mental
health. The author of this article is obviously a student at this school and she is overall
objective about her topic. It is more of an information centered article as opposed to an
opinionated article. I would not suggest that this article is very high quality because the
research about actual anxiety and other mental health disorders is very minimal. The title
of the article is misleading because I thought it was going to be about how anxiety was on
the rise, but it was more about the schools counseling center. The other sources in my
annotated bibliography focus more on anxiety disorders themselves and why college
students develop them. This source will not appear in my inquiry project because it does
not provide me with the specific information I am looking for. It does give me an

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example of how other college campuses treat their students who have mental health
disorders, but it still does not provide enough information for me to use in my final
project.

Prevatt, F, V Dehili, N Taylor, and D Marshall. "Anxiety in College Students with Adhd:
Relationship to Cognitive Functioning." Journal of Attention Disorders. 19.3 (2015):
222-30. Web. 12 March 2015.
This source talks about a study that was done to see if college students with ADHD suffer
from more anxiety than the average college student. In the study, they found a relation in
which students that have ADHD experience more anxiety when it comes to a situation
like taking a test, but in general, these students do not have an overall higher anxiety level
because of their ADHD. However, the beginning paragraph does state that children who
have ADHD do suffer from higher levels of anxiety. The author argues that college
students with ADHD may be at risk for anxiety from situations in their new college
lifestyle because they have a stronger difficulty and struggle more when it comes to their
academics. This is an academic source, and I find it very reliable because the source in
itself has data and statistics that were found from the authors own research on the topic.
These were results and conclusions that they found themselves and not something they
looked up online and decided to add it into their journal to make their arguments seem
more legit. This source is different from my other sources because it is about a
relationship between ADHD and anxiety alone. I will be using this journal in a small
section of my final project when I talk about if there is a relationship between ADHD, or
other things that can impact students such as depression, and anxiety. This is useful to me

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because it gives me insight on students that have ADHD and if there actually is a
relationship between that and anxiety issues. This made me think a little bit different
about anxiety because it made me realize that people can have anxiety due to certain
disorders they have, which is something I have never thought of.