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Are Today’s Teenagers the Most Stressed Generation?

Our documentary will be exploring the pressures that teenagers face today, in comparison to the pressures that older generations faced when they were teenagers (e.g. parents)

The pressures we are focusing on are parental pressures, social media pressures, the pressure to look good, and pressures from colleges to achieve high grades, complete work, meet deadlines and go to university to start a career.

Through our topic research, we have found that the number of university applicants were much lower when our parents were starting their careers, so this increase in university rates show us that the pressure to actually go to university through schools, colleges and families has increased. In our documentary, we will be exploring how these university expectations have changes through the generation. Also, social media didn’t exist when our parents were teenagers, and therefore there was a lot less pressure to look good in pictures posted online and to ‘fit in’ as there was less access to the internet and less exposure to peer pressure or social media groups that teenagers today may feel pressured to join.