According to a new analysis, the number of US teens who felt “useless” and “joyless” grew 33 percent between 2010 and 2015, and there was a 23 percent increase in suicide attempts.
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The amount of time teens have spent working and participating in extracurricular activities has held steady in recent years. There has, however, been one big change in their lives: smartphones.
New research shows that families in Japan and the US struggle in very similar ways with how technology is affecting their lives, their relationships and each other.
Should parents be worried that many teens are putting off traditional rites of passage like working, driving and dating?
Teenagers aren’t just lazy. Their sleep hormones aren’t calibrated to let them get up and go until later in the morning – which has academic and health consequences when school starts too early.
Teenagers pick up cues about drinking from you and your family. Here’s how you can help them develop a healthier relationship with alcohol.
Allowing young people to legally access marijuana will improve cannabis education and use-prevention, and hinder illegal activity.
Understanding where teens learn about sex and how that influences them can help us find ways to encourage healthy sexual behaviors, such as using condoms and birth control.
Evolutionary psychology could explain why the memories and friendships formed during these years seem more vivid, potent and meaningful than those from any other stage of life.
Learning about a friend’s suicide attempt appears to transform a distant idea into something very real. Should this change the way we talk about suicide?
Some parents worry their teens’ obsession with dark fiction means they’ll grow up and overthrow the government – like Katniss Everdeen in Hunger Games. How real is this concern?
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wayne State University
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Chief Program Officer, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Senior Research Fellow in Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University
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Dean and Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Education & Communications Coordinator, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate professor, RMIT University