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I haven’t looked into the data carefully but this strikes me as implausible at first impression for a few reasons. One is that cultures with highly structured
by outlace 3y ago
I haven’t looked into the data carefully but this strikes me as implausible at first impression for a few reasons.
One is that cultures with highly structured time for kids like China do not have the same dramatic rises in mental illness, that I’m aware of. Two is that this seems to only apply to middle class or rich western kids (unsurprising for academic studies). You really think poor kids are spending too much time at piano lessons and not playing? No they have the opposite problem of too much lack of structure.
Overall this seems quite narrow minded to me. The only part of this that rings true is the cultural phenomenon of wanting to make feel everyone safe all the time, even from mere ideas and speech.
- MattGaiser 3y ago> China do not have the same dramatic rises in mental illness Or does their culture just tend to view higher levels of distress as normal given how competitive it is there? https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/china-gen-z-mental-health-crisis-suicide-academic-depression-education/ https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/china-gen-z-mental-health-cri... That being said, they are open that there are issues there as well.
- outlace 3y agoYeah but there’s big a difference between mental health issues in China being driven by intense academic competition and pressure and, as the Haidt article claims, lack of enough unstructured playtime.
- tinycombinator 3y agoIntense academic competition and lack of unstructured playtime would seem to go hand-in-hand, no?
- ddq 3y agoThe epidemic of youth suicide in Japan and South Korea related to the stress of their rigid, demanding education systems is fairly common knowledge.