Name: The Anxious Generation
SKU: 56133427
Availability: OutOfStock
Author: Jonathan Haidt

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jonathan Haidt

Publisher

Allen Lane

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24x16 cm

ISBN13

9780241647660

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt (Author) · Allen Lane · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Anxious Generation"

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‘Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet, disguised as a psychologist . . . He points the way forward to a brighter, stronger future for us all’ Susan Cain

'Compelling, readable – and incredibly chilling . . . remarkably persuasive' Telegraph

'Urgent and essential' Guardian

'One of the most terrifying books I have read . . . some of the statistics Haidt quotes are truly shocking' Evening Standard

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide risen so sharply, more than doubling in many cases?

In this book, Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers.
Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared while time engaging face-to-face with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health. This profound shift took place against a backdrop of diminishing childhood freedom, as parents over-supervised every aspect of their children’s lives offline, depriving them of the experiences they most need to become strong and self-governing adults.

The Anxious Generation reveals the fundamental ways in which this shift from free-play to smartphones disrupts development – from sleep deprivation to addiction – with separate in-depth analyses of the impact on girls and boys. Grounded in ancient wisdom and packed full of cutting-edge science, this eye-opening book is a life raft and a powerful call-to-arms, offering practical advice for parents, schools, governments, and teens themselves.

Jonathan Haidt

(Author)

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Writer and social psychologist from New York University, Stern School of Business. Haidt's research examines the intuitive foundations of morality and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018, he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline in mental health of teenagers and the rise of political dysfunction.

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