1、The Youth Mind:Rising aggression and angerImage generated by ChatGPTRapid Report/The Global Mind Project January,2025This study was made possible with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation(SNF).Dear Reader,In the United States,the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)has been documen

2、ting growing rates of both sadness and suicide among 1018-year-olds since 2010,particularly in girls.While their latest data shows that rates of persistent sadness recently plateaued in this age group,they report rising rates of violence and fear for physical safety.In India too,the National Mental

3、Health Survey from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(NIMHANS)has documented an increase in suicide rates among young people.Why is this happening?This report,based on comprehensive profiles of the mind health&wellbeing of 10,475 Internet-enabled adolescents in the United Stat

4、es and India in 2024,describes trends among this age group and provides some crucial perspectives.As in older GenZers mind health continues to decline significantly with each younger year of age from 17-and 13-year-olds.Most significantly,among the 47 aspects of mind health queried,feelings of aggre

5、ssion,anger and hallucinations are rising most sharply with each younger age and are associated with the progressively younger age at which children are acquiring smartphones.Whereas todays 17-year-olds typically got a phone at age 11 or 12,todays 13-year-olds got their phones at age 10.Although its

6、 still not yet fully clear how owning a smartphone from a younger age gives rise to these problems,its well known that the virtual world provides exposure to content that is inappropriate for a younger audience and a substantial departure from the family-and community-centric experiences of the past