There’s just huge anxiety: ontological security, moral panic, and the decline in young people’s mental health and well-being in the UK
There’s just huge anxiety: ontological security, moral panic, and the decline in young people’s mental health and well-being in the UK
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存在着巨大的焦虑：本体论安全、道德恐慌以及英国年轻人心理健康和福祉的下降
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2019
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T. Alexander
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J. Bell;M. Reid;J. Dyson;A. Schlösser;T. Alexander
这项研究旨在批判性地讨论与最近英国青年心理健康问题急剧上升相关的因素。它借鉴了与年轻人、父母和专业人士进行的访谈和焦点小组。我们对影响年轻人心理健康和福祉的重大问题提供了宝贵的新见解，这些问题基于他们的生活经历以及那些关心和与他们一起工作的人。通过对数据的主题分析，我们发现焦虑的增加与以下因素有关：未来取向、社交媒体使用、教育、紧缩以及精神痛苦和自我伤害的正常化。我们运用本体论安全的概念来解释社会文化和政治变革如何增加年轻人的焦虑，以及随之而来的对自我、世界和未来的不确定性，从而导致心理健康问题。在青少年心理健康的概念化和管理方面也存在问题，包括提高认识、增加对这些问题的接受程度以及污名化。我们将其与风险社会中道德恐慌和问题广泛传播的趋势联系起来。在我们的结论中，我们强调了对未来研究，政策和实践的影响。
This study aims to critically discuss factors associated with a recent dramatic rise in recorded mental health issues amongst UK youth. It draws from interviews and focus groups undertaken with young people, parents and professionals. We offer valuable new insights into significant issues affecting young people’s mental health and well-being that are grounded in their lived experiences and in those who care for and work with them. By means of a thematic analysis of the data, we identified an increase in anxiety related to: future orientation, social media use, education, austerity, and normalization of mental distress and self-harm. We apply the notion of ontological security in our interpretation of how socio-cultural and political changes have increased anxiety amongst young people and consequent uncertainty about the self, the world and the future, leading to mental health problems. There are also problems conceptualizing and managing adolescent mental health, including increased awareness, increased acceptance of these problems, and stigmatisation. We relate this to the tendency for moral panic and widespread dissemination of problems in a risk society. In our conclusion, we highlight implications for future research, policy and practice.