Generation Z is now stressed, depressed, and exam-depressed

At first, i'd rather to describe what is generation Z about?

-> Meaning of Generation Z : a cohort which demographers usually define as people born since 1997.

 

<Who>

Researchers and Generation Z

 

<What>

- Researchers devoted lots of efforts to understanding the attitudes and experiences of people born in the 1980s and early 1990s who are more educated and poorer than their elders are.

- Generation Z are far less concerned about age-ole teenage problems like unplanned pregnancy and binge-drinking than they are about mental health.

 

<Where>

Pew

<When>

- Fully 70% of respondents thought anxiety and depression were a major issue among their peers.

- Researchers have collected far fewer data about people who can barely remember a world without social media and smartphones.

<How>

 

<Why>

 

Most of the research so far about generation Z suggests that youngsters today are less hedonistic, better behaved and more lonely than ever before.

In late 1980s, Pew polled 920 Americans aged 13 - 17 about the problems that they have seen among their peers.

What is causing such widespread stress and dejection among the young?

1. social media have made teenagers fell more isolated from their friends and tormented by their peers.
2. academic worries: members of generation Z, even more so than millennials before them, seem to have less desire to get wasted and more to get top grades.