The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
(review)

Michaela Lebedíková ORCID logo
IRTIS, Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Vojtěch Mýlek ORCID logo
IRTIS, Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
David Šmahel ORCID logo
IRTIS, Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Michal Tkaczyk ORCID logo
IRTIS, Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity

A critical review by Czech researchers.

https://doi.org/10.29364/epsy.498

(Fulltext in Czech)

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