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  • 2024 – “Professors say students are coming into college with a host of new and alarming learning challenges, including fragmented and distracted thinking, along with sharper limits on what they are willing or able to do.”

    06/06/2026

    Sophia Sarafova, an associate professor of biology at Davidson College, notes that at the start of her teaching career, 18 years ago, new students were able to synthesize and summarize information from multiple lectures on…

  • 2020 – Study finds that dating app users are “2.5 the odds of being psychologically distressed than non-users and almost twice the odds of being depressed.”

    06/06/2026

    When the four MH scores were analysed together there was a significant difference (p = 0.037) between being a user or non-user, with SDBA users having significantly higher mean scores for distress (p = 0.001), anxiety (p = 0.015) and depression…

  • 2024 – Study finds dating app users experience “increased emotional exhaustion and inefficacy over time.”

    06/06/2026

     Four hundred ninety-three active single dating app users were surveyed over four waves across 12 weeks, with a final sample of 190. Multilevel growth curve models showed that dating app users experienced increased emotional exhaustion…

  • 2024 – Meta-study tracking 17 years finds “dating app users reported significantly worse psychological health and well-being.”

    06/06/2026

    We found that dating app users reported significantly worse psychological health and well-being (i.e., depression, anxiety, affective dysregulation, loneliness, and psychological distress) than dating app non-users. We also performed a subgroup analysis to explore the…

  • 2026 – Citing middle-school level skills, UC faculty want to restore math, science testing for applicants

    05/29/2026

    The letter cites a November report from UC San Diego’s Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions, which concluded that the number of students whose mathematical abilities were below the typical high school level had increased thirty-fold in…

  • 2022 – A Gallup and Walton Family Foundation report stated less than half of Gen Z individuals (47%) consider themselves as “thriving” in their lives – the lowest rates among any generation in the United States, and a lower rate than millennials at the same age. 

    05/25/2026

    Members of Gen Z who have an adult encouraging them to pursue their goals and dreams are more than twice as likely as those without to strongly agree they have have a great future ahead…

  • 2025 – A link between problematic social media use and mental health in Greece: Sex and generation differences

    05/25/2026

    Our findings revealed a positive correlation between problematic social media use and anxiety, which was unaffected by sex or generation. Additionally, a positive link was found between problematic social media use and depression, with a…

  • 2026 – The World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, found that excessive use of social media negatively impacts personal wellbeing.

    05/25/2026

    “If you use social media for an hour a day, that’s great, you’re being connected,” says Michael Plant, Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre. “But the report did show a correlation between, the more…

  • 2021 – Social media damages teenagers’ mental health, report says

    05/25/2026

    Heavy social media use was linked to negative wellbeing and self-esteem, regardless of a young person’s mental state, with more girls experiencing feelings of depression and hopelessness. One in three girls was unhappy with their…

  • 2025 – Three in four teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly.

    05/25/2026

    A third of teens have chosen AI companions over humans for serious conversations, and a quarter have shared personal information with these platforms. One third of teens surveyed say they have discussed serious matters with…

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