With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There’s a Likely Culprit Jean Twenge Arts & Culture Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression –...
What Might Explain the Unhappiness Epidemic? Jean Twenge Arts & Culture, Sociology We’d all like to be a little happier. The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside of our control. Some of us are genetically predisposed to see the world through rose-colored glasses,...
How the Smartphone Affected an Entire Generation of Kids Jean Twenge Arts & Culture As someone who researches generational differences, I find one of the most frequent questions I’m asked is “What generation am I in?” If you were born before 1980, that’s a relatively easy question...
