The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness / Jonathan Haidt.
The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness / Jonathan Haidt.
By
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Haidt, Jonathan.
Publication Date
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2024
Publication Information
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New York : Penguin Press,
Physical Description
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385 p. : ill., charts.
Subject Term
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Child development.
Child mental health.
Internet and children.
Social media -- Psychological aspects.
Children -- United States -- Social conditions.
Summary
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In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the "play-based childhood" began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this "great rewiring of childhood" has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780593655030
General Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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