Posts Tagged: IGen

Teen Girls and the Press of Social Media: NOT Hapless Victims

Posted by & filed under Anxiety OC PTSD, Child Development, Consciousness, Depression, Emerging Adulthood, Gender-Role Development Sex Differences, Health Psychology, Intervention: Children Adolescents, Intervention: Identifying Key Elements of Change, Motivation-Emotion, Persuasion, Research Methods, Social Cognition, Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Stress Coping - Health, Stress: Coping Reducing, Student Success, The Self.

Description: You have likely run across recent concerning discussions regarding the levels of anxiety and depression being reported among teens and emerging adults and particularly among young teen aged girls. The reported (in population surveys) jumps in anxiety, self-harm and suicidal thoughts in young teen girls since around 2010 are worrying and research and debate… Read more »

Degree of Independance and Social Media: Socio-Historical Impacts on Development in Emerging Adulthood

Posted by & filed under Anxiety OC PTSD, Child Development, Depression, Early Social and Emotional development, Emerging Adulthood, Families and Peers, Health Psychology, Human Development, Intervention: Children Adolescents, Stress Coping - Health, Stress: Coping Reducing, Student Success.

Description: Answer two questions: Where you born before or after 1995? How old were you the first time you were allowed, by your parents, to out of your house and into your neighborhood by yourself? If you were born after 1995 you are more likely to have said 10, 11 or 12 years of age… Read more »