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American adults who identify as politically liberal have long reported
lower levels of happiness and psychological well-being than conservatives,
a trend that mental-health experts suspect is at least partly explained by liberals� tendency to spend more time worrying about stress-inducing
topics like racial injustice, income inequality, gun violence, and climate change.
Now a team of Columbia epidemiologists has found evidence that the same
pattern holds for American teenagers. The researchers analyzed surveys collected from more than eighty-six thousand twelfth graders over a thirteen-year period and discovered that while rates of depression have
been rising among students of all political persuasions and demographics,
they have been increasing most sharply among progressive students � and especially among liberal girls from low-income families.
The authors, who include Columbia professors Katherine M. Keyes �10PH,
Seth J. Prins �16PH, and Lisa M. Bates, along with graduate student and
lead author Catherine Gimbrone, speculate that left-leaning teens may have
been deeply affected by Donald Trump�s election as president, the US
Supreme Court�s subsequent lurch to the right, rising socioeconomic
inequality, and worsening political polarization. �Liberal adolescents may
have therefore experienced alienation within a growing conservative
political climate such that their mental health suffered in comparison to
that of their conservative peers whose hegemonic views were flourishing,�
they write.
They are a bunch of left-wing bed-wetting pussies!
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/why-depression-rates-are-higher- among-liberals
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