Anxiety and virtuality: the collapse of happiness among young Westernists

< IMG Loading = "Lazy" SRSC = "/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Medium/2025-03/Eric-Okt1bnnumkk-Unsplash.jpg ? Itok = Hy7atiim" Width = "1300" Height = "867" Class = "Lazyload Img-Fluid Image-Style-Max-1300x1300" SRC = "/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Max_1300x1300/Public/2025-03/Eric-OKT-AKT1BNNUMMK-UNSPLASH.JPG ? iTok = AV7WPPQE"/ DR - UNSPLASH < P >< Strong > A study commissioned by the UN reveals that young Westerners suffer from a deep discomfort that keeps getting worse. Anxiety, isolation, crisis of meaning … These symptoms multiply, exacerbated by inequalities, a post-Cavid crisis and the development of social networks. A situation that could lastingly affect the whole company.

< P > Western young people have become the most unhappy generation for decades ? according to a study commissioned by the UN and conducted by researchers Jean Twenge and David Blanchflower, the answer is probably yes. Published on March 3, this study reveals a drastic fall in well-being among young people aged 18 to 30 in the last ten years. At a time when the first digital generations reach adulthood, a deep discomfort is felt, more particularly in women. < P >If the phenomenon begins well before the COVVI-19 crisis, the latter exacerbated the consequences: “The young people no longer go out, no longer play with their friends, and above all, they no longer interact as before”, explain the researchers at < EM > Guardian . In Great Britain, the rate of young classified adults as “desperate” doubled between 2009 and 2023. Social isolation, amplified by the development of smartphones and social networks, seems to contribute to this generational disarray. < P > and, as reports < EM > usbek & amp; Rica, d Wrinkle This deterioration of well-being hides a much darker economic reality. The inequalities of access to employment and the pressure exerted by the climatic issues participate in this negative spiral. Ultimately, this crisis will not only affect the mental health of young people, but also their economic and social prospects. David Blanchflower warns that the impact could have repercussions on global productivity and academic results. A global alert which has already encouraged the UN to ask for complementary studies. < P > Jonathan Haidt, psychologist and author of < U > Anxious generation , go even further by predicting that the omnipresence of the content generated by situation. It warns that social isolation, exacerbated by virtuality, risks further paralyzing the social capacities of younger generations. “All this will end very badly,” he predicts, strengthening the disastrous vision of a youth disconnected from reality. < P >< Strong > The article you liked ? It mobilized our editorial staff which only lives from your gifts. < Br > Information has a cost, especially since competition from subsidized writing requires additional rigor and professionalism. < P > With your support, France-Soir will continue to offer its articles for free & nbsp; we think that everyone must have access to free and independent information to forge their own opinion. < P > You are the sine qua non condition for our existence, support us for France-Soir to remain the French media which makes the most legitimate express.