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JOY Drive

17 May 2024

Have smartphones created an Anxious Generation?

Health, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Science & Medicine, Technology

Have smartphones created an Anxious Generation?

We all experienced things that made us anxious as kids – bullying, homophobia, graduating in a recession, career choices, dysfunctional families etc.

Yet kids today also have the pressures that smartphones can bring.

In fact a new book by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has called these kids, the Anxious Generation.

Guest:  Hugh Breakey, Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law at Griffith University.

Presenter:  Warren Andrew

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