#adolescent-well-being

#adolescent-well-being

The Anxious Generation (2024), the run-away best seller by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, argues in no uncertain terms that the "phone-based childhood," which has replaced the "play-based childhood" and is dominated by immersion in social media, is "the major cause of the international epidemic of adolescent mental illness" (p. 139).

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