Includes graphs for Australia. Conclusion: "the mental health of adolescent girls in nations across the Anglo world became significantly worse in the early 2010s. It wasn’t just large increases in self-reports of anxiety and depression; it was also behaviors, including self-harm, and suicide. Boys have struggled enormously too,
but their outcomes have been more varied across nations, and they do not so often show an elbow in the late 2000s or early 2010s .. The sudden switch from play-based childhood to phone-based childhood is—we believe—the leading candidate for being the major cause of the international collapse of adolescent mental health".
Includes a fascinating hypothesis about the
effect of leaded petrol on boys in particular.
