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Continuing our series following our recent Mental Health survey, this week, we have broken down how the statistics compare between male and female students across both exam groups. Photo: The Avondhu

Male and female students are often seen as having very different views on things in life, in that girls are often perceived to over think things, while boys seem to brush things off.

The Avondhu circulated a survey on mental health and young people to Junior and Leaving Cert students across The Avondhu catchment area and last week, journalist Sandra Quinn gave a breakdown of the figures, outlining attitudes towards mental health.

This week, we have broken down how the statistics compare between male and female students across both exam groups.

Similar to the overall picture, 72% of male students felt their school provided adequate mental health support, compared to a little less, 61% of females, but for both groups only 2% would tell a teacher if they had a problem with their own mental health.

Again, the correlation between the two does not seem to be there, which suggests that while there might be programmes and supports in place in the schools, a more open relationship between students and teachers needs to be nurtured, so that students will come to a teacher if they are going through something.

Interestingly, more male students (51%) said that they would know how to handle the situation if someone came to them, compared to their female counterparts (46%).

In line with the perception that girls would be more open and would talk about things more, slightly more female students (93%) said that they felt talking more about mental health would help, as compared to 91% of male students.

More than half of the students, both male and female, felt that they would associate negative mental health experiences with their own age group (13-25), while 46% of male students associated positive mental health experiences with their own age group as well, but the same percentage of female students associated positive mental health experiences with those aged 25 and older.

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