According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in the US fell to 3.5%, thus returning to pre-pandemic levels. In terms of demographics, the unemployment rate stood at 3.3% for adult men and 3.1% for adult women, while it was at 11.4% for teenagers aged 16 to 19.
Most pre-adolescents want nothing more than to fit in, Mendle points out. "It's a time when you don't want to be distinguished from your peers in any way, shape or form." So when a child develops earlier than his or her peers, there can be long-lasting effects on mental health, several studies show. In one recent example, Karen Rudolph, PhD, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and colleagues, followed more than 160 boys and girls for three years. They found that girls who matured earlier than their peers had increased rates of depression that persisted over the course of the study. They also found that while early-maturing boys initially had lower levels of depression than later-maturing boys, over time they showed signs of increased anxiety, negative self-image and interpersonal stress. By the end of the three-year study period, the boys' rates of depression were almost as high as those of the early-maturing girls (Development and Psychopathology, 2014).
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