Parents With Degrees May Have More Stressed-Out Kids, Study Finds

Why? The study’s co-authors, Alex Bertrams, Ph.D., and Nina Minkley, Ph.D., believe it comes down to maintaining the social status of your family. Those with college-educated parents may feel extra pressure to “keep the ball rolling,” so to speak, where those whose parents do not have degrees feel like there’s simply less to lose. “Individuals from non-academic families are particularly unstressed because they (and their families, respectively) can only gain (but not lose) an academic status,” they write in the paper on their findings.