In Generations, Twenge analyzes mental health trends for five age groups, from the Silent Generation, who were born between 19, to Gen Z, who were born between 19. "Indeed, I think the picture is getting more and more consistent," says economist Alexey Makarin, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Ī seismic change in how teens spend their time In particular, studies from three different types of experiments, altogether, point in the same direction. At the same time, several high-quality studies have begun to answer critical questions, such as does social media cause teens to become depressed and is it a key contributor to a rise in depression? She has a new book out this week, called Generations, with much more data backing her hypothesis. Some even accused her of inciting a panic with too little - and too weak - data to back her claims. ![]() That's very suspicious," Twenge told NPR in 2017.īut many of her colleagues were skeptical. "Smartphones were used by the majority of Americans around 2012, and that's the same time loneliness increases. And she had a hypothesis for the cause: smartphones and all the social media that comes along with them. Rates of depression, anxiety and loneliness were rising. ![]() Twenge warned of a mental health crisis on the horizon. ![]() "In all my analyses of generational data - some reaching back to the 1930s - I had never seen anything like it," Twenge wrote in the Atlantic in 2017. When she looked at mental health metrics for teenagers around 2012, what she saw shocked her. Twenge studies generational trends at San Diego State University. Back in 2017, psychologist Jean Twenge set off a firestorm in the field of psychology.
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