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Selected pieces Dr. Twenge has written for newspapers, magazines, and online outlets:

Substack: Gen Z really does have a work ethic problem. Or maybe we all do?

Substack: Here are 13 other explanations for the adolescent mental health crisis. None of them work.

Substack: Is there really a generational difference in identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual?

The Atlantic: The Myth of the Broke Millennial (excerpt of Generations)

The Globe and Mail: Adolescents are in the midst of a full-blown mental health crisis

TIME.com: How Gen Z Changed Its Views on Gender (excerpt of Generations)

Deseret News: Gen Z and mental health: A lesson in generational despair (excerpt of Generations)

Substack: The Mental Health Crisis Has Hit Millennials: Why It Happened and Why It’s Bad for Democracy (excerpt of Generations with additional new material)

Substack: Academic pressure cannot explain the mental illness epidemic: It’s not the homework. It’s the phones.

TIME.com: Teen Girls are Facing a Mental Health Epidemic

Institute for Family Studies: Teen Girls Are in Trouble.

Institute for Family Studies: Protecting Teens from Big Tech: Five Policy Ideas for States

Washington Post: Social media is riskier for kids than ‘screen time’

The New York Times: This is our chance to pull teenagers out of the smartphone trap

Institute for Family Studies: Teen mental health during the pandemic

Deseret News: What we know now about screen time for kids

Institute for Family Studies: The Facebook Expose: Four things parents need to know

The difference family structure makes in teens’ tech use. Institute for Family Studies Report.

San Diego Union-Tribune: Why GenZ – or iGen – is experiencing much higher rates of mental health issues

Institute for Family Studies: Teens are lonelier than ever. What do smartphones have to do with it?

The Conversation: Money buys even more happiness than it used to

Institute for Family Studies: Marriage and money: How much does marriage explain the growing class divide in happiness?

The Atlantic: How teens reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020

The Conversation: Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys

Institute for Family Studies: Six facts about screens and teen mental health that a recent New York Times article ignores

TIME.com: Stop Debating Whether Too Much Smartphone Time Can Hurt Teens, and Start Protecting Them

School Administrator: The Unhealthy State of the Smartphone Age

World Happiness Report: The Sad State of Happiness in the United States and the Role of Digital Media

Washington Post: ‘Gaming disorder’ is only a symptom of a much larger problem

San Diego Union-Tribune: Phone-free schools? Students need distraction-free learning

TIME.com: iGen’s political and racial views

The Conversation: Teens are sleeping less – but there’s a surprisingly easy fix

The Atlantic: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
(adapted from my book, iGen)

The Atlantic: How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?

The Atlantic: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic?

The Conversation: How Do We Know the Millennial Generation Exists? Look at the Data

The Conversation: Teens have less face time with their friends — and are lonelier than ever