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I disagree. Parenting is critical but I believe the root is the relationship with smart phones by not only students but everyone else in the students lives (par

I disagree. Parenting is critical but I believe the root is the relationship with smart phones by not only students but everyone else in the students lives (parents/teachers/counselors/other role models). A mixture of constant audio, visual, and social, inputs has lowered our attention spans and rotted our ability to deal with stress in healthy ways (and likely created new stresses simultaneously). To support this I would cross-reference screen time between 1st world countries and mental health records, normalizing as best I could for all the other variables in the equation.

Vomzor 7y ago
Smartphones definitely play a role but aren't the main cause. The rise of depression and anxiety started before smartphones were mainstream. "Comparing groups across generations is admittedly difficult, but the data clearly point to things being far worse now. Trend data clearly suggest increases in levels of stress, depression and anxiety at least since the 1980s. Consider that one study found that the average high school student in the year 2000 has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient did in the 1950s; and those rates have only increased in the last decade. Utilizing the MMPI to assess psychopathology, Twenge and colleagues found five times as many students in 2007 surpassed clinical cutoffs in one or more mental health categories, compared with those who took the measure several decades ago." https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/theory-knowledge/201402/the-college-student-mental-health-crisis https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/theory-knowledge/2...