Schweizer Susanne, Lawson Rebecca P, Blakemore Sarah-Jayne
University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2023 Oct;53:101657. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101657. Epub 2023 Jul 28.
Mental health problems in young people have been on the rise for over a decade, with that trend accelerating during the pandemic. This review proposes that the catalyst effect of the pandemic offers insights into a key driver of increases in youth depression and anxiety: greater uncertainty. Uncertainty about many aspects of everyday life, including social connections, education, job security and health, increased during the pandemic, and this coincided with increasing rates of depression and anxiety. Lab-based developmental cognitive and clinical neuroscience research on tolerance of uncertainty and adolescent mental health shows that when adolescents fail to show age-typical tolerance of uncertainty, they are at greater risk of mental health problems. Avenues for future research to understand and promote tolerance of uncertainty in adolescents are proposed.
十多年来，年轻人的心理健康问题一直在上升，这一趋势在疫情期间加速。本综述提出，疫情的催化作用为青少年抑郁和焦虑增加的一个关键驱动因素提供了见解：更大的不确定性。在疫情期间，日常生活的许多方面，包括社会关系、教育、工作保障和健康等方面的不确定性增加了，而这与抑郁和焦虑发生率的上升同时出现。基于实验室的关于不确定性耐受性和青少年心理健康的发展认知与临床神经科学研究表明，当青少年未能表现出与年龄相符的不确定性耐受性时，他们出现心理健康问题的风险就更大。本文还提出了未来研究的方向，以了解和促进青少年对不确定性的耐受性。
