approximately 85 percent of young people in the most recent samples have anxiety and depression scores greater than the average scores for the same age group in the 1950s. Looked at another way, Twenge’s analyses of MMPI and MMPI-A scores indicate that five to eight times as many young people today have scores above the cutoff for a likely diagnosis of a clinically significant anxiety or depressive disorder than was the case half a century ago. For example, based on the Depression Scale of the MMPI, approximately 8 percent of college students who took the test between 2000 and 2007 scored above the usual cutoff for clinical depression, compared to approximately 1 percent of those who took the test between 1938 and 1955. Peter Gray suggests that lack of play correlates with the rise of depression and other disorders. I think Id generalize to lack of autonomy, but to do so in a scientific manner, Id have to think about how to define and measure it, and determine whether any long-term studies have been done along those lines.
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