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Symposium on Young American Men

Mental health · 2025 survey

Peer Mental Health Rating

How would you rate the overall mental health of young men your age?

Young men rate other young men their age as worse off than themselves.

Topline, all respondents

  • Excellent8.4%
  • Good17.1%
  • Fair34.2%
  • Poor29.3%
  • Very poor8%
  • Unsure3%

Most common answer

Fair

Share

34.2%

Deck page

p.30

The numbers

How would you rate the overall mental health of young men your age?
ResponsePercent
Excellent8.4
Good17.1
Fair34.2
Poor29.3
Very poor8.0
Unsure3.0

In the deck

Cygnal deck, page 30: Peer Mental Health Rating

Cygnal deck, p.30 · Open this page in the PDF

Citation

Cygnal / The Lafayette Company, “How would you rate the overall mental health of young men your age?”, Survey of 1,000 American men aged 16 to 28, fielded October 22–26, 2025, margin of error ±3.01%.