我觉得，在这方面，华人家庭要好些，孩子们多数被照顾得不错，苦的是家长。 一般的美国民众就不知道了。 -------- "在美国，青少年和年轻人的自杀率比 2010 年上升了 50%“ Midlife Crisis is Dead in 34 Countries: Young People Suffer as Older Generations Thrive The well-known "U-shape" in well-being and "hump shape" in unhappiness by age has disappeared in the U.S., U.K. and many other countries in recent years Unhappiness now declines monotonically with age rather than peaking in midlife The change is driven by a rapid deterioration in the mental health of adolescents and young adults, especially young women The trend started around 2011 after the Great Recession and accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic New data from over 30 countries confirms unhappiness is now highest in the young and steadily declines with age globally Overview An empirical regularity long observed by social scientists - that well-being bottoms out and unhappiness peaks in midlife - no longer holds, according to new research. The reason: mental health has declined precipitously among adolescents and young adults in recent years. In a new working paper, economists David Blanchflower, Alex Bryson and Xiaowei Xu document the disappearance of the "midlife crisis" using data from the U.S., U.K. and over 30 other countries. They find that around 2011, the age profile of unhappiness fundamentally changed. While unhappiness used to follow an inverted U-shape, peaking in one's 40s and 50s before improving later in life, it now monotonically declines with age. The change is driven by skyrocketing rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts among teens and young adults, particularly young women. The Data Data from government health surveys in the U.S. and U.K. show the proportion of young women who experienced serious psychological distress in the past month more than doubled between 2009 and 2022. For young men, it also rose substantially, though not quite as dramatically. The researchers replicated this finding across 34 countries using five different measures of mental distress from 2020-2024. In every country, unhappiness was highest among 18-24-year-olds and declined with each successive age group. Young women fared the worst. The causes are still being investigated, but the authors point to the 2008 recession, the COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020, and the meteoric rise of smartphones and social media as potential culprits. Excessive screen time has been linked to poor mental health outcomes in teens. Whatever the reasons, the consequences are alarming: more young people are struggling in school, dropping out of the workforce, and in the worst cases, taking their own lives. Suicide rates among U.S. teens and young adults are up more than 50% since 2010.
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"在美国，青少年和年轻人的自杀率比 2010 年上升了 50%“
Midlife Crisis is Dead in 34 Countries: Young People Suffer as Older Generations Thrive
The well-known "U-shape" in well-being and "hump shape" in unhappiness by age has disappeared in the U.S., U.K. and many other countries in recent years Unhappiness now declines monotonically with age rather than peaking in midlife The change is driven by a rapid deterioration in the mental health of adolescents and young adults, especially young women The trend started around 2011 after the Great Recession and accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic New data from over 30 countries confirms unhappiness is now highest in the young and steadily declines with age globally
Overview
An empirical regularity long observed by social scientists - that well-being bottoms out and unhappiness peaks in midlife - no longer holds, according to new research. The reason: mental health has declined precipitously among adolescents and young adults in recent years. In a new working paper, economists David Blanchflower, Alex Bryson and Xiaowei Xu document the disappearance of the "midlife crisis" using data from the U.S., U.K. and over 30 other countries. They find that around 2011, the age profile of unhappiness fundamentally changed. While unhappiness used to follow an inverted U-shape, peaking in one's 40s and 50s before improving later in life, it now monotonically declines with age. The change is driven by skyrocketing rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts among teens and young adults, particularly young women. The Data
Data from government health surveys in the U.S. and U.K. show the proportion of young women who experienced serious psychological distress in the past month more than doubled between 2009 and 2022. For young men, it also rose substantially, though not quite as dramatically. The researchers replicated this finding across 34 countries using five different measures of mental distress from 2020-2024. In every country, unhappiness was highest among 18-24-year-olds and declined with each successive age group. Young women fared the worst. The causes are still being investigated, but the authors point to the 2008 recession, the COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020, and the meteoric rise of smartphones and social media as potential culprits. Excessive screen time has been linked to poor mental health outcomes in teens. Whatever the reasons, the consequences are alarming: more young people are struggling in school, dropping out of the workforce, and in the worst cases, taking their own lives. Suicide rates among U.S. teens and young adults are up more than 50% since 2010.