Study on the Main Causes of Depression in Contemporary College Students

In today's fast-paced and rapid development era, people's pressure is also increasing rapidly, too much pressure also makes depression become the focus of public attention, and effective prevention has become an urgent problem to be solved. College students are the backbone of social progress, but a large number of college students suffer from depression, which makes it very important to find out the main causes of depression. Whether to effectively prevent depression among college students is not only whether the mental health problems of the new generation can be solved, but also whether the society can continue to efficiently produce high-quality talents and promote social development in the future. Therefore, this paper mainly focuses on the main causes of depression among college students. This paper mainly uses linear regression method to infer the sample data and find out the main causes of depression. In order to identify the most important causes, this paper selected the most likely causes of depression from the majority of academic studies, and compared the strength of the linear relationship to infer the more important causes. Results show that annual income performs a significant influence on depression in college students.