HeyJaredGeneration Tech
Psychologist and author Jean M. Twenge shares the latest research on teens & social media, generational differences, and trends in mental health -- plus tips for finding a better balance with technology.
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Younger teens are now much less likely to say they are lesbian, gay, or bisexual (opens the original)
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Is identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual “in free fall” among young people in the last few years – or is it relatively stable?I’ve been on both sides of this question. At first I found a decline in identifying as LGB among U.S. 18- to 24-year-olds with early data from 2025, but that decline disappeared when the full year of data for 2025 became available.<div cla
The demise of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals has been greatly exaggerated (opens the original)
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Last year, several researchers – including me – found that fewer U.S. young adults were identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual in 2024 and 2025 than just a few years before.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LDHl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd88aee9-2e21-474c-8e9f-e7db73d04238_518
Test scores keep plunging worldwide – what is going on? (opens the original)
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PISA, the international program that measures 15- and 16-year-olds’ academic performance, released its 2025 data last week.The results are, in a word, terrible.The PISA tests of math, reading, and science are normally administered every three years, with the 2021 assessment was pushed to 2022. Between 2018 and 2022, no one was particularly surprised tha… Read more
Suicide rates among teen girls are rising in Australia, Canada, and the UK (opens the original)
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Suicide is the most tragic outcome of the adolescent mental health crisis. It’s crucial to determine how widespread the increases in adolescent suicide are, both to understand the scope of the problem and to figure out what might be causing it. If the rise is linked to social media, for example, we’d expect increases in most industrialized countries, not just the U.S., and larger increases among girls given that they spend more time on social media and appear to be more affected by that time.We
How to do a tech detox with your teen (opens the original)
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If you have school-aged kids, this is the time of the summer when things start to drag. Maybe they had a week of camp or family vacation, but now they’re sitting in their room on their phone, surfing the web on their laptop, or watching streaming on their tablet. And the start of school, with its inundation of school-issued devices and screen-based homework, is right around the corner.Time for a reset. Any break from school is the perfect opportunity to find out what your kid is like without dev
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