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Take away messages<br />

• Many students at risk for later psychological distress entered with<br />

potentially mutable vulnerabilities (e.g. social connectedness,<br />

emotion acceptance and regulation, cognitive style, sense of life<br />

meaning etc..)<br />

• Academic stress does not cause distress but exacerbates distress<br />

tendencies among those with existing vulnerabilities<br />

• Cognitive style (pessimism / optimism) is a particularly powerful<br />

predictor of distress and thriving (and is mutable)<br />

• Parents exert a powerful influence on mental health and wellbeing<br />

– even from afar

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