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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Gebundene Ausgabe – 26. März 2024
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From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
“Erudite, engaging, combative, crusading.” —New York Times Book Review
“Words that chill the parental heart… thanks to Mr. Haidt, we can glimpse the true horror of what happened not only in the U.S. but also elsewhere in the English-speaking world… lucid, memorable… galvanizing.” —Wall Street Journal
"[An] important new book...The shift in kids’ energy and attention from the physical world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, has been catastrophic, especially for girls." —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times
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 many measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist 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 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe400 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberPenguin Press
- Erscheinungstermin26. März 2024
- Abmessungen16.26 x 3.43 x 24.18 cm
- ISBN-100593655036
- ISBN-13978-0593655030
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“Words that chill the parental heart… thanks to Mr. Haidt, we can glimpse the true horror of what happened not only in the U.S. but also elsewhere in the English-speaking world… lucid, memorable… galvanizing.” —Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal
“I found myself nodding along in agreement … benefits from… years of research on how smartphones and social media dice the nerves and tamp the spirits of young people … not just reasonable but irrefutably necessary.” —Jessica Winter, New Yorker
“Boundlessly wise… important and engrossing.” —Frank Bruni, New York Times Opinion
“All the suggestions sound sensible. Some even sound fun . . . Deals seriously with counter-arguments and gaps in the evidence.” —The Economist
“Can be quite wonderful… beautifully grounds his critique in Buddhist, Taoist and Christian thought traditions… His common-sense recommendations for actions...are excellent.” —Judith Warner, The Washington Post
"[An] important new book...The shift in kids’ energy and attention from the physical world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, has been catastrophic, especially for girls." —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times
“Informative and compelling…Haidt wants children to spend more time appreciating nature, playing with friends, riding and falling off their bikes, and doing age-appropriate chores.”—Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today
"An urgent and essential read, and it ought to become a foundational text for the growing movement to keep smartphones out of schools, and young children off social media" —Sophie McBain, The Guardian (UK)
“Compelling, readable—and incredibly chilling . . . remarkably persuasive.” —Lucy Denyer, Telegraph (UK)
"A persuasive and rousing argument"—Anna Davis, Evening Standard (UK)
“If this important book rings enough alarms (wait, or is that just my phone pinging?) to make politicians impose a genuine social media ban on children, I believe most parents would be happy and most teenagers happier.” —Helen Rumbelow, The Times (UK, Book of the Week)
"Haidt sets out inarguable evidence that smartphones are fuelling an anxiety epidemic among young people—and big tech must do more to reverse it…an extremely important and compelling read that is recommended not only to parents but to anyone who has felt increasingly pressurised by technology…I can’t recommend this book highly enough; everyone should read it. It is a game-changer for society." —Stella O'Malley, Irish Independent
“Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet, disguised as a psychologist. In this book, he’s back to warn us of the dangers of a phone-based childhood. He points the way forward to a brighter, stronger future for us all.” —Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet
“An urgent and provocative read on why so many kids are not okay—and how to course correct. Jonathan Haidt makes a powerful case that the shift from play-based to phone-based childhoods is wreaking havoc on mental health and social development. Even if you’re not ready to ban smartphones until high school, this book will challenge you to rethink how we nurture the potential in our kids and prepare them for the world.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking
“This is a crucial read for parents of children of elementary school age and beyond, who face the rapidly changing landscape of childhood. Haidt lays out problems but also solutions for making a better digital life with kids.” —Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better
“Every single parent needs to stop what they are doing and read this book immediately. Jonathan Haidt is the most important psychologist in the world today, and this is the most important book on the topic that’s reshaping your child’s life right now.” —Johann Hari, author of Stolen Focus
“This book poses a challenge that will determine the shape of the rest of the century. Jonathan Haidt shows us how we’ve arrived at this point of crisis with technology and the next generation. This book does not merely stand athwart the iPhone yelling ‘Stop!’ Haidt provides research-tested yet practical counsel for parents, communities, houses of worship, and governments about how things could be different. I plan to give this book to as many people as I can, while praying that we all have the wisdom to ponder and then to act.” —Russell Moore, editor in chief of Christianity Today
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A Tidal Wave
Chapter 1
THE SURGE OF SUFFERING
When I talk with parents of adolescents, the conversation often turns to smartphones, social media, and video games. The stories parents tell me tend to fall into a few common patterns. One is the “constant conflict” story: Parents try to lay down rules and enforce limits, but there are just so many devices, so many arguments about why a rule needs to be relaxed, and so many ways around the rules, that family life has come to be dominated by disagreements about technology. Maintaining family rituals and basic human connections can feel like resisting an ever-risingtide, one that engulfs parents as well as children.
For most of the parents I talk to, their stories don’t center on any diagnosed mental illness. Instead, there is an underlying worry that something unnatural is going on, and that their children are missing something—really, almost everything—as their online hours accumulate. But sometimes the stories parents tell me are darker. Parents feel that they have lost their child. A mother I spoke with in Boston told me about the efforts she and her husband had made to keep their fourteen-year-old daughter, Emily, away from Instagram. They could see the damaging effects it was having on her. To curb her access, they tried various programs to monitor and limit the apps on her phone. However, family life devolved into a constant struggle in which Emily eventually found ways around the restrictions. In one distressing episode, she got into her mother’s phone, disabled the monitoring software, and threatened to kill herself if her parents reinstalled it. Her mother told me:
It feels like the only way to remove social media and the smartphone from her life is to move to a deserted island. She attended summer camp for six weeks each summer where no phones were permitted—no electronics at all. Whenever we picked her up from camp she was her normal self. But as soon as she started using her phone again it was back to the same agitation and glumness. Last year I took her phone away for two months and gave her a flip phone and she returned to her normal self.
When I hear such stories about boys, they usually involve video games (and sometimes pornography) rather than social media, particularly when a boy makes the transition from being a casual gamer to a heavy gamer. I met a carpenter who told me about his 14 year-old son, James, who has mild autism. James had been making good progress in school before COVID arrived, and also in the martial art of judo. But once schools were shut down, when James was eleven, his parents bought him a PlayStation, because they had to find something for him to do at home.
At first it improved James’s life—he really enjoyed the games and social connections. But as he started playing Fortnite for lengthening periods of time, his behavior began to change. “That’s when all the depression, anger, and laziness came out. That’s when he started snapping at us,” the father told me. To address James’s sudden change in behavior, he and his wife took all of his electronics away. When they did this, James showed withdrawal symptoms, including irritability and aggressiveness, and he refused to come out of his room. Although the intensity of his symptoms lessened after a few days, his parents still felt trapped: “We tried to limit his use, but he doesn’t have any friends, other than those he communicates with online, so how much can we cut him off?”
No matter the pattern or severity of their story, what is common among parents is the feeling that they are trapped and powerless. Most parents don’t want their children to have a phone-based childhood, but somehow the world has reconfigured itself so that any parent who resists is condemning their children to social isolation.
In the rest of this chapter, I’m going to show you evidence that something big is happening, something changed in the lives of young people in the early 2010s that made their mental health plunge. But before we immerse ourselves in the data, I wanted to share with you the voices of parents who feel that their children were in some sense swept away, and who are now struggling to get them back.
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- Herausgeber : Penguin Press
- Erscheinungstermin : 26. März 2024
- Sprache : Englisch
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe : 400 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 0593655036
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593655030
- Abmessungen : 16.26 x 3.43 x 24.18 cm
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- Bewertet in Deutschland am 21. März 2025After more than a decade of smartphones and social media it is time to assess, that the impact of these new technologies on humans is. The outcome of many studies on various topics in this field is not pretty. It is quite shocking and deserves to be read. While for some of the results it is still early days and more work might be required, this book describes enough to makes me wonder whether it would not be a good idea to just dramatically reduce exposure to smartphones/social media right away. The important question seems to be: what is the upside of this technology? What can we expect to gain in the face of so much that we apparently lose?
Excellent and highly valuable book - I can only highly recommend reading it, especially if you have got young kids!
- Bewertet in Deutschland am 4. Juni 2025Super Buch, kann ich absolut empfehlen!
- Bewertet in Deutschland am 27. Mai 2025A Thought-Provoking Read on the Decline of Childhood in the Digital Age
The Book in 3 Sentences:
• Anxious parenting, smartphones, and social media are reshaping childhood in harmful ways, contributing to alarming spikes in depression, anxiety, and a loss of purpose among Gen Z.
• Children thrive in environments that offer unsupervised, risk-appropriate play, social interaction within a community of peers, and increasing independence—yet these crucial experiences are being eroded by overprotective parenting and excessive screen time.
• To reverse these negative trends, parents, schools, children, and regulators must unite to push back against these forces—through school phone bans, screen time limits, and, most importantly, promoting adventurous, free, and risky play that fosters healthy development.
My Critique:
The author argues that children are antifragile—that they grow through risk, failure, and challenge. However, this idea isn’t fully extended to the discussion around phones and social media. I believe there’s room for a more nuanced approach: focusing more on education, positive digital habits, and encouragement of real-world activities, rather than only restriction. Just a gut feeling, but one worth exploring.
- Bewertet in Deutschland am 19. Mai 2025Interesting book everyone has to read it
- Bewertet in Deutschland am 14. April 2025Sehr lesenswert, gut aufbereitet und eine gute Grundlage um Entscheidungen zu treffen.
- Bewertet in Deutschland am 31. März 2025Eines der besten Bücher, die ich je gelesen habe!
- Bewertet in Deutschland am 22. Februar 2025Actuality if the subject can't be bigger.
Not only exploration of important topic, but solutions offered.
Great for self-reflection even for people who don't have kids.
- Bewertet in Deutschland am 6. Oktober 2024Again, Haidt has written an excellent book. What makes this book outstanding is its relevance: The author describes acute problems our societies is facing, in particular the mental health crisis young people are suffering from.
As a retired teacher in a German secondary school and a father to a Gen-Z son I can only attest to everything Haidt says about the negative effects of smartphones and social media on young people.
Haidt's analysis confirms our worst fears. But his advice and recommendations are relatively easy to implement, e.g. phone-free schools and free play. This helps to make The Anxious Generation a hopeful book, too. So let's all join the movement!
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E. JonesBewertet in den USA am5. Juli 2025
5,0 von 5 Sternen Fascinating Description Of Current Adolescent Mental Health Issues
The book "The Anxious Generation" by Dr. Jonathan Haidt, has received a great deal of attention, much of it, in my opinion, well deserved. It goes into a lot of background of just what the mental health issues are today for so many adolescents as well as suggestions for actions that could be taken to deal with the causes that this book determines to be the primary reasons that these issues have come up.
There were a few things that I noticed as I read the book. The most obvious was the focus on smart cell phones. This is something that you hear about all of the time now and it is an area where a lot of attention is being taken, particularly in the area of banning, to the greatest extent legally and practically possible, the access to these cell phones by adolescents, particularly in schools. In some ways, this is the easy part. Schools have the power to force their students to do or not do lots of things, of which cell phones are one of them. However, Dr. Haidt speaks of foundational reforms, of which he provides four of them. Three of them have to do with cell phones, but the last one has to do with unsupervised play and childhood independence. To me, I think this is much more difficult to do something about. Schools can collectively force their students not to use cell phones, but getting them to go out and play is not so simple.
Dr. Haidt points out that parents have gotten much more concerned about the safety of their children. As a result, they limit unsupervised play to much later ages. He says that this needs to be reversed. But to do so will be very difficult. He also discusses reasons that have been thought of for why this has taken place. There doesn’t seem to be consensus on this, but it will be helpful to develop if the change he would like to see can realistically happen.
The other particular comparison I noted was between Figure 1.1 and Figure 1.5 in the book. Figure 1.1 noted the rise in teen depression but only went back to 2004. Figure 1.5 went back to 1982 and showed that these issues did have a period of increase in the 1990s that then went down by 2008, before rising again after that. The levels in the 1990s were not as high as the levels have gotten since 2010, but it would be interesting to know what the reasons are thought to be for the earlier increase in the 1990s.
Overall, I found The Anxious Generation to be a very interesting and well researched book. It already has and will continue to have a role in making changes, particularly in schools, with regard to adolescent cell phone use.
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MonetteA very urgent, crucial read for every parent and educator.
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