US EditionData Shows Young Adults Struggling More Than Previous Generations
- Researchers published the Global Flourishing Study in 2023, showing young adults ages 18 to 29 struggle with happiness and well-being across 22 countries including the US.
- The study follows from concerns about rising mental health issues, economic instability, and declining community and religious participation affecting youth well-being.
- The survey assessed over 200,000 individuals on multiple flourishing dimensions such as mental health, meaning, relationships, character, and financial security, revealing lower scores among young adults.
- Tyler VanderWeele, lead author, described young adults’ condition as “a pretty stark picture,” highlighting the complex causes and raising questions about investment in youth well-being.
- These findings suggest society must prioritize social connection, spiritual habits, and meaning to address the sustained low flourishing seen in today’s young adults.
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Gen Z Youth Is Totally Restructuring the Way Researchers Visualize Happiness — & It’s Not Good
Happiness is a hard thing to quantify. How do you take a subjective feeling and make it a fact? It’s something researchers have grappled with, and that subjectiveness is why most studies about happiness (or any emotion) have to be taken with a grain of salt. But for a long time, researchers have thought of the human experience of happiness as a U-shaped line graph. People are typically really happy in their youth (Oh, the joys of adolescence!)…
200,000 people were interviewed for a study on well-being and happiness. Germany only occupies the 17th out of 22 places. Remarkable: Younger people are getting worse globally. By D. Rengeling.
Data Shows Young Adults Struggling More Than Previous Generations
A massive new study has confirmed what a lot of young adults already suspect: we’re not OK. The Global Flourishing Study—a new study from a joint research project between Harvard and Baylor universities—measured a dozen indicators of flourishing, including happiness, mental and physical health, purpose, relationships, financial security and character in more than 200,000 people across 22 countries. The study found that found that young adults re…
The Atlantic
onlinemarketingscoops.comWhy Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
Fun and wealth are not everything: a new global study shows who is particularly happy in which countries. The disturbing message: young people are consistently less satisfied.
A survey conducted by two American universities, which have been interested in 22 countries around the world, points, among other things, to a "mental health crisis" among young people.
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