dissatisfied, sedentary and worried about their future
sedentary, dissatisfied of your physical appearance, worry And disillusioned regarding the future, aware that Covid has partially compromised their education e less likely to study university students. It is the photograph of youngtaken from Adolescent Laboratory and fromIard research instituteon a sample of 5,600 Italian students between 13 and 19 years. They emerge few hopes and so many fears, in one of the most delicate phases of life. The body changes, and to have the relationship with physical and food determining the role of influencer, fashion blogger, advertising: applies to the 59.1% of the males and for the 77.6% of the females.
If adolescents still struggle to regain the serenity lost due to the Covidwith over half fearing future upsurge, the outbreak of war in Ukraine ah then undermined the sense of confidence in the future. The is very high – especially among the girls – with percentages ranging from l’80 and the 90%. To pass from dad to conflictseamless – says the president of Laboratorio Adolescenza Maurizio Tucci – made these young people, already severely affected on a psychological level by the pandemic, even more fragile and fearful. “We keep in mind that we are in an age where the future should be bright, perhaps even a utopia, something unachievable, but still with positive expectations. Instead we find ourselves with more than 50% of kids describing their future with the terms uncertain or worried. Only 12%therefore a very low percentage, yes optimistic. This is evidence that leaves us a little baffled. The bitter consideration on which we are most open to a profound reflection – he continues – is that we have built the panorama that these adolescents see when they look out the window of their future, piece by piece “.
So what can they do the adults? “They should try to understand – Tucci suggests – what are the problems and the lived of these teenagers. We talk about it a lot but the feeling is that we ignore adolescence as a definite reality. Many times we associate children with children, other times with adults, but we do not do something specific designed and imagined for them. This helps to worry and make them anxious and not to expect who knows what from the future “.
In the report, an interview with the president of Laboratorio Adolescenza, Maurizio Tucci.