A survey coordinated by Inserm and researchers from the Fondation Vallée (the Interdepartmental Public Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Gentilly, in the Paris region), have just published a vast epidemiological survey carried out among adolescents. . This study compares the perceptions of 15,235 young people aged 13 to 18 concerning their own adolescence and tackles such diverse subjects on their health, their hobbies, their addictions or their sexuality.
“Today’s generation of adolescents is often presented as oblivious, disenchanted, lazy and dependent on objects more than connections. However, this study shows that almost half of adolescents (48.4%) have confidence in them. future, especially boys who are 58.6% against 38.9% girls “underlines this study. The vast majority of them feel good with their parents and think that they take a positive view of them. Moreover, if more than half think that adults set too many limits, they are more likely to admit to needing them (74.9%).
As the transition from childhood to adulthood, adolescence is a time of psychological upheaval and physiological complex which sometimes leads to some difficulties: depression affects 16.8% of girls and 7% of boys. In addition, 38.9% of young people have already thought that “life is not worth living”.
The suicide attempts are more frequent than before: 7.8% of young people have already done one, 3.7% more than one.
The key numbers
– Almost 50% of adolescents have confidence in the future.
– For 56% of the young people questioned, adolescence is not always an easy period.
– A very large majority (74.5% of girls and 57.6% of boys) favor isolation in the event of ill-being.
– 75% of adolescents admit to needing limits.
– 88% are on social networks.
– 7.1% regularly consume cannabis.
– 37.6% recognize “significant occasional alcoholism” in the previous month.
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