International Declines in Parental Support of Students

International Declines in Parental Support of Students (OECD PISA) [Preliminary]

This post is related to (but not a part of) the Youth Suicide Rise project.

Summary:

In all but one of the 35 surveyed OECD countries, the portion of 15-year-old students agreeing their parents support their educational efforts has declined between 2015 and 2018, while the portion disagreeing has increased by at least 50% in 29 of the 35 countries (the OECD average close doubling from 6% to 11%). The trends were nearly as strong and universal for parental support during difficulties at school and for parental encouragement. No country had substantial declines for disagreeing on any of the three questions and only Korea had substantial increases for strongly agreeing.

The Perils of Improper Terminology

 

The Perils of Improper Terminology: A Comment on The Smartphone Trap

This post is related to (but not a part of) the Youth Suicide Rise project.

In a NY Times essay by Jonathan Haidt and Jean M. Twenge titled This Is Our Chance to Pull Teenagers Out of the Smartphone Trap, the authors state the following:

Teenage loneliness was relatively stable between 2000 and 2012, with fewer than 18 percent reporting high levels of loneliness. But in the six years after 2012, rates increased dramatically. They roughly doubled in Europe, Latin America and the English-speaking countries, and rose by about 50 percent in the East Asian countries.