Recognising the anxiogenic environment as a driver of youth anxiety

Janie Busby Grant; Philip J Batterham; Alison L Calear; Will J Grant; Helen Christensen

doi:10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00023-8

Recognising the anxiogenic environment as a driver of youth anxiety

Janie Busby Grant
, Philip J Batterham
, Alison L Calear
, Will J Grant
, Helen Christensen

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Abstract

Although anxiety is a common experience, the prevalence of extreme, persistent, and debilitating anxiety has grown among young people in the past two decades. 1 , 2 Severe anxiety is associated with substantial negative impact on everyday functioning and wellbeing and is closely linked with the development of other mental illnesses, such as depression. Anxiety can be driven by a range of societal, financial, and ecological factors (eg, poverty, unemployment or precarious employment, inequality, discrimination), environmental features (eg, housing quality, overcrowding, and pollution), and crises (eg, global pandemics, political turmoil, and conflict), 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 many of which disproportionally affect young people. 7 , 8

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	303-305
Number of pages	3
Journal	The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Volume	7
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00023-8
Publication status	Published - May 2023

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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