Nearly half of teenage girls hold back from voicing disagreements or thoughts because they want to be liked. Here's why that's a problem.
their parents, psychologically speaking, somehow remains in place alongside overwhelming evidence that what teens want is to revitalise, maintain, and update relationships with parents. [1] What is less well known is how understanding of human development is also impeded when some seminal studies fade from view, as though they never existed.Over and over we hear about the crisis in the mental health of girls.
gap is noted, but the work that could help frame the issue is forgotten. Maggie Jones, writing last week in, notes that “the numbers of teenagers — in particular, girls — who are in despair about their lives is surging. Three out of five teenage girls felt persistent ‘sadness or hopelessness’ in 2021, the highest rate in a decade, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey released this year....Experts don’t understand why the numbers have been rising....
This is a pity because in so many ways the authors clearly grasp the approach needed. They challenge any “tendency to treat [the gender gap in mental health] as inevitable” or essential or based on biology. They believe it is likely linked to “the context in which boys and girls grow up and are socialized.
Disappointingly, however, the authors claim that “we have little empirical evidence delineating the drivers of this gender gap.” Yet empirical evidence is precisely what we already have in a rich body of research that is ongoing and highly cited but inexplicably ignored by many now at the coalface of teen mental health.
These findings remain pertinent today. Girls are told they can do anything, and be anyone they want, but to do so they have to succeed according to social rules and educational standards. Social media comes in only as it adds more watchers to police girls’ looks, words, and actions, but the laws are the same. Girls are still taught to put others’ needs before their own, to “look nice” and “speak nicely.
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