Anxious Generation

Extracted Attributes

• ISBN

  978-0-593-65503-0

• Pages

  400

• Title

  The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• Author

  Jonathan Haidt

• Language

  English

• Publisher

  Penguin Press

• Media Type

  Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook

• Key Concept

  Great Rewiring of Childhood (transition from play-based to phone-based childhood)

• Cover Artist

  Dave Cicirelli

• Primary Argument

  Increased childhood mental illness is linked to widespread smartphone/social media adoption and overprotective parenting.

• Publication Date

  2024-03-26

• Publication Place

  New York, USA

• Proposed Solutions

  Ban smartphones in schools, promote feature phones.

• Author's Profession

  Social Psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership

• Author's Affiliation

  New York University’s Stern School of Business

Timeline

• The decline of the 'play-based childhood' began. (Source: web_search_results)

  1980s

• Jonathan Haidt received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. (Source: web_search_results)

  1992

• Increased smartphone usage and overprotective parenting began to harm children, contributing to the 'Great Rewiring of Childhood'. (Source: summary, Wikipedia)

  2000s (late)

• The 'phone-based childhood' arrived, leading to a sharp rise in rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide among adolescents. (Source: web_search_results)

  2010s (early)

• Publication of the book 'The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness'. (Source: Wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2024-03-26

• The book was recommended by the hosts on episode 175 of the All-In Podcast. (Source: related_documents)

  2024

The Anxious Generation

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness is a 2024 book by Jonathan Haidt which argues that the spread of smartphones, social media, and overprotective parenting have led to a "rewiring" of childhood and a rise in mental illness. Haidt argues that the combination of the decline of play-based childhoods, exacerbated by what he describes as overprotective parents, and increasing smartphone use has been harmful to children since the late 2000s. In an interview during the WSJ's Future of Everything Festival, he advocates banning smartphones in schools, arguing for feature phones with limited features instead.

Web Search Results

• The Anxious Generation — from a book to a movement

  The mass migration of childhood into the virtual world has disrupted social and neurological development. This disruption includes social anxiety, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction. Alarmed by the rates of anxiety and depression in adolescents, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote The Anxious Generation. The book explores these growing phenomena and attributes them to the transition from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood. [...] In _The Anxious Generation_, Jonathan Haidt lays out four reforms or “new norms” that would provide a foundation for a healthier kind of childhood in the digital age. Each norm helps parents and teens escape the social trap they find themselves in. No teen wants to be the only one who does not have a smartphone and social media, and no parent wants to socially isolate their child. These four norms help families escape the trap and reverse the two big (well-intentioned) mistakes we’ve made: [...] In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt lays out four reforms or “new norms” that would provide a foundation for a healthier kind of childhood in the digital age. Each norm helps parents and teens escape the social trap they find themselves in. No teen wants to be the only one who does not have a smartphone and social media, and no parent wants to socially isolate their child. These four norms help families escape the trap and reverse the two big (well-intentioned) mistakes we’ve made:

• The Anxious Generation - Wikipedia

  The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness is a 2024 book by Jonathan Haidt which argues that the spread of smartphones, social media, and overprotective parenting have led to a "rewiring" of childhood and a rise in mental illness. [...] Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia ## Contents # The Anxious Generation The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness [...] | | | --- | | First edition cover | | | Author | Jonathan Haidt | | Cover artist | Dave Cicirelli | | Language | English | | Publisher | Penguin Press | | Publication date | March 26, 2024 | | Publication place | New York | | Media type | Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook | | Pages | 400 | | ISBN "ISBN (identifier)") | 978-0-593-65503-0 (First edition hardcover) | | Dewey Decimal | 305.230973 | | LC Class "LCC (identifier)") | HQ792.U5 H23 2024 |

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is ...

  As a parent, I've often grappled with the challenges of raising a child in today's tech-saturated world. Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation provided a comprehensive and eye-opening exploration into how the shift from a play-based to a phone-based childhood has impacted our youth's mental health.What resonated deeply was the emphasis on the importance of unstructured, independent play and real-world social interactions in building resilience and emotional well-being. The book doesn't just [...] Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Penguin Press. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. The Great Rewiring is a phenomenon Haidt attributes to the first generation (Gen Z) to likely grow up with a smartphone combined with parenting shifts toward "overprotecting children and restricting their [...] Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “Height”) is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book The Righteous Mind. His latest book, The Anxious Generation, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in The Coddling of the

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is ...

  In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist and Professor Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early [...] Skip to main content # Experience Stern | Faculty & Research Faculty Directory Books ## The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness — By Jonathan Haidt [...] After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why?

• The Anxious Generation | Psychiatric Times

  Every so often, a book comes along that serves as a nexus for a wide range of information, observations, phenomena, and intuitions that congeal into an “of course” moment of insight. Such was my experience while reading The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, PhD.1 In the book, Haidt presents a compelling hypothesis as to how the convergence of various societal and technological changes over time [...] SHOW MORE Epidemiological data show that rates of anxiety, depression, self-injurious behaviors, and suicidality increased for Gen Z in significantly higher numbers than previous generations. Advertisement New Africa/AdobeStock [...] Dr Milleris Medical Director, Brain Health, Exeter, New Hampshire; Editor in Chief, Psychiatric Times; Voluntary Consulting Psychiatrist at Seacoast Mental Health Center, Exeter/Portsmouth, NH; Consulting Psychiatrist, Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts. References 1. Haidt J. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Penguin Press; 2024.