For more than half a century, the middle -aged crisis was a characteristic of Western society. Fast cars between 40 and 50 years of age, impulsive decision and peak misery. But according to experts, it is changing.
A New paper A leading scholar commissioned by the United Nations Jean Twice David Blancflower warned that the rapidly growing youth mental health crisis in six countries using six English is increasing our traditional happiness patterns.
Happiness was once considered relatively calm young people, middle -aged, more difficult and more comfortable U -shaped, but well -being experts say that our satisfaction is steadily increasing as we get older.
According to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the U -shaped shape of well -being has now disappeared.
Analyzing the response to the surveys of the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, found that life satisfaction and happiness have fallen among young people, especially among young women for the past decade.
It emphasized the increase in the increase in smartphones and social media, and the trend coincided with the growth of the Internet, and it was consistent with the growth of the Internet with the effects of happiness in the surveys of six countries and various countries around the world.
Former British bank policy maker Blanchflower said to the Guardian in an interview, “This can eventually be a lost generation.” He said that well -being has fallen sharply in the United States and the United Kingdom and pointed out the growth of body shabu with social media, cyber harassment and online.
“Young people are isolated. There aren’t many people sitting there by phone. They do not go farewell. You can play with friends, interact with others, or have sex.
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“I don’t doubt that you have an absolute global crisis. Young people are in deep confusion and difficulties. And the question is what we do about it? And we don’t know. ”
Blanchflower wrote a paper in 2020, a major British labor market economist at the US Dartmouth College, a prominent US Dartmouth College, and found the same U in happiness everywhere. But he said he missed the collapse of youth well -being in the survey data since 2013.
“I saw it and thought, ‘Oh, she is right.’ What happened is a big problem. It was not covid and started before, but it was expanded after 2020. ”
Other studies have led to the connection between youth mental health crisis and generational inequality, unmodified social media, unstable employment and climate crisis. Young people also like to be outside the job market in mental health.
Blanchflower said that the collapse of youth welfare can result in extensive social and economic consequences. “This economics is a really big problem. Potentially this is related to the children withdrawal from school. Then they come from labor. Perhaps it will affect the achievements in school and can affect global productivity. ”
He said he had asked for further research to confirm whether it could be found elsewhere around the world. “The United Nations sees this as a big world crisis,” he added.
“We always know that life is not so bad as life is more realistic and happiness is reduced due to pressure. We must think of the whole idea again. ”
