The anxious generation

Jonathan Haidt

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide risen so sharply, more than doubling in many cases? In this book, Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers. Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired.

Author(s): Haidt, Jonathan
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 02/01/2025
Pagination: 385 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin Books
Published By: Penguin Books
Book Classification: Social, group or collective psychology|Teenagers: advice for parents|Popular psychology|Impact of science & technology on society|Child, developmental, and lifespan psychology
Dimensions: 199x129x26
Weight: 348
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781802063271