With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
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#2tl:dr correlation between them all getting mobile phones and facebook. Perhaps because of the need to reduce it to six paragraphs, it is a very unconvincing piece.
Re: With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
#3tl:dr correlation between them all getting mobile phones and facebook. Perhaps because of the need to reduce it to six paragraphs, it is a very unconvincing piece.
It might be an unconvincing piece, but it still seems like a very plausible hypothesis to me.
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#4Except from 2010 - 2015 many teens did feel a crushing sense of economic dread as they dealt with the realities of student loans, an out of reach housing market, devalued college degrees, the gig economy, promises of no retirement, etc.
The article just skims over it with a quick this is why economics couldn’t have been the reason.
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#5dang : can we change the clickbait title?
Re: With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
#6Im sure smartphones could be a possible factor however one must not forget how depressing the whole high school experience is. I think that the pressure has increased quite a bit. The amount of hw has also increased.
I don’t think that this suicide increase has been observed in say Finland.
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#7Housing market is pretty bad factor. Most generations previous could afford a starter house on two minimum wage or a bit above minimum wage incomes. In many areas today you need two engineering incomes to pay off a 30 yr mortgage.
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#8tl:dr correlation between them all getting mobile phones and facebook. Perhaps because of the need to reduce it to six paragraphs, it is a very unconvincing piece.
I don't think that's a reasonable summation, there is a correlation between mobile phone use while there are other studies showing teens assigned to use less of Facebook are more happy. The author could not find movement in other variables that could account for this change, although of course that does not prove that they don't exist (she only mentions homework and economic growth). It's obviously not definitive and she acknowledges this, but it is striking nonetheless.
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#9Is it possible this is also in part due to EMFs from their phones (and environment) and circadian rhythm disturbances from screens?
Some studies suggest the radiation can be risky to kids:
Christ A, Gosselin MC, Christopoulou M, K’uhn S, & Kuster N. (2010 Jan.). Age dependent tissue-specific exposure of cell phone users. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 55: 1767-1783. Retrieved from http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/55/7/001/pdf/0031-9155_5....
Block, R. (12 July 2012). American Academy of Pediatrics letter to the FCC. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/104230961/American-Academy-of-Pedi...
Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson Mild K. (2009) Epidemiological evidence for an association between use of wireless phones an tumor diseases. Pathophysiology 16 (2-3): 113-122.]
Hardell L, Hansson Mild K, Carlberg M, Hallquist A. (2004) Cellular and cordless telephones and the association with brain tumours in different age group. Archives of Environmental Health 59 (3): 132-137.
Divan HA, Kheifets L, Obel C, Olsen J. (2008) Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Cell Phone Use and Behavioral Problems in Children. Epidemiology 19(4): 523-529.
Byun, YH, Ha, M, Kwon, HJ et al (2013 Mar 21). Mobile phone use, blood lead levels, and attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms in children: a longitudinal study. PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e59742. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059742.
Morgan, L, Kesari, S, Davis, D (2014). Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences. Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure 2(4): 197-204. doi:10.1016/j.jmau.2014.06.005
Environmental Health Trust (2015). Wireless and Children. Retrieved from: http://ehtrust.org/cell-phones-radiation-3/wireless-and-chil...
Exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields and behavioural problems in Bavarian children and adolescents. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19960235
Re: With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
#10Im sure smartphones could be a possible factor however one must not forget how depressing the whole high school experience is. I think that the pressure has increased quite a bit. The amount of hw has also increased. I don’t think that this suicide increase has been observed in say Finland.
Well, remember that we're talking about an uptick. High school has always been soul-crushing for a certain percentage of the student body. The question isn't just what's wrong, but what's changed to make it worse?