The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable

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despair has risen most sharply among young American workers, particularly the least educated. In the past, having a job seemed to provide a protective effect against poor mental health. That effect appears to have weakened for young Americans, perhaps because of falling job satisfaction among the same group.

Another oft-cited culprit of teenage angst is smartphone and social media use, which has risen in lockstep with youth mental health problems since the early 2010s. There is some evidence for a causal link, but the most rigorous studies, which track teenagers’ mood and social media use over long periods of time, do not find a strong relationship between such app use and subsequent mental ill-health.

Qn: Do young people in your society 'have it all'?