Graduate students suffer from issues with mental and emotional wellbeing at a high rate. While most commonly understood as an individual issue, the high prevalence of mental health problems suggests that their causes may extend beyond personal factors. A closer look at the environment that a graduate student operates in suggests systemic or organizational factors that exert notable pressures that students have to cope with. This article examines four levels of systems that create a structural environment that negatively impacts mental health and wellbeing among graduate students: (1) the academic system, (2) the institutional and departmental systems, (3) lab or cohort systems, and (4) the social-economic system. In light of this analysis, we propose a model of how systemic stress affects mental health. This model sheds light on the systems-level process improvements that can be instituted to help universities prevent mental health issues among graduate students.

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“酝酿压力”：系统性压力如何影响研究生心理健康

研究生以高比率遭受心理和情绪健康问题的困扰。虽然最常被理解为个人问题，但心理健康问题的高发率表明其原因可能超出个人因素。仔细观察研究生所处的环境，可以发现系统性或组织性因素对学生施加的显着压力是学生必须应对的。本文研究了四个层次的系统，这些系统创造了对研究生心理健康和福祉产生负面影响的结构环境：（1）学术系统，（2）机构和部门系统，（3）实验室或队列系统，以及（4 ) 社会经济制度。根据这一分析，我们提出了一个系统性压力如何影响心理健康的模型。