Title: Why 90 Percent of Generation Z Says They're Stressed Out | Psychology Today
Headings: Why 90 Percent of Generation Z Says They're Stressed Out
B. Janet Hibbs, Ph.D., Anthony Rostain M.D.
Why 90 Percent of Generation Z Says They're Stressed Out
Historic events, culture, and parenting combust with stress in youth.

Content: The probable then becomes a certainty, leading to fatalism and despair. Youth don’t have enough life experience to sort out the differences between risk and inevitability — hence their greater sensitivity to prevailing cultural messages of “doom and gloom.” The tragedy of school shootings blares across the nightly news. Yet, the more insidious and invisible threats to psychological health and well-being — which lead to heightened stress, and emotional distress, with their attendant rates of youth suicide, anxiety and depression — are of a commonplace type. The APA survey highlights the significance of the following factors: article continues after advertisement
High levels of loneliness. Substitution of social media for a true friendship network. Constant bombardment of negative self-comparisons. A narrowing definition of life success leading to destructive perfectionism and all-or-nothing thinking. What to do about the disturbing findings of this latest research on stress among today’s youth?