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Haidt, Jonathan2024
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In The Anxious Generation, Haidt shows 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, including time spent comparing oneself to a vast pool of others. Time engaging face-to-face with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health. But this is not just a story about technology; this profound shift took place against a backdrop of declining childhood freedom and free-play, 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. In this book, Haidt makes a compelling argument that the loss of play-based childhood and its replacement with a phone-based childhood that is not suitable for human development is the source of increased mental distress among teenagers. The Anxious Generation delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show the four fundamental ways in which a phone-based childhood disrupts development, sleep deprivation, social deprivation, cognitive fragmentation and addiction.
Main title:
The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness / Jonathan Haidt.
Author:
Haidt, Jonathan, author
Imprint:
Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2024.
Collation:
385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241647660 (hardback)9780241694909 (trade paperback)
Dewey class:
616.89 HAI616.89
Language:
English
Subject:
Teenagers -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryInternet and teenagers -- United StatesTeenagers -- Mental health -- United StatesChildren -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st centurySocial media -- Psychological aspectsInternet and children -- United StatesChild mental health -- United StatesChild development -- United States
Index terms:
Child care & upbringingPsychiatry/mental illness inc depression & anxietyChild & developmental psychology
BRN:
100981

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