The report says that the phenomenon of insufficient sleep among teenagers is getting worse
95.5% of elementary school students, 90.8% of junior high school students and 84.1% of high school students did not sleep up to the standard
Our newspaper, Beijing, March 2 (China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Qiu Chenhui) The reporter learned today from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that the Blue Book of Mental Health "Chinese National Psychology" was investigated and compiled by the Institute and published by the Social Science Literature Press. "Health Report (2019-2020)" was released recently.
Among them, the "Inter-annual Evolution of Adolescents' Mental Health Status in 2009 and 2020" is a special report that examines the evolution of adolescents’ depression and sleep status over the past 10 years and found that the detection rate of adolescents’ depression has remained stable, and the phenomenon of insufficient sleep has become increasingly serious. : 95.5% of elementary school students, 90.8% of junior high school students, and 84.1% of high school students did not sleep up to the standard.
Chen Zhiyan, associate editor of the Blue Book and a professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that adolescents’ lack of sleep is mainly manifested in two aspects: First, the proportion of sleep deprivation of 8 hours on school days has increased by 1 percentage point.
In 2009, 47.4% of teenagers slept for 8 hours or more on school days. In 2020, this proportion was only 46.4%. In 2020, the average sleep length of teenagers was 7.8 hours, 0.3 hours less than in 2009.
A segment analysis shows that 95.5% of elementary school students sleep less than 10 hours a day, an average of 8.7 hours; 90.8% of junior high school students sleep less than 9 hours a day, an average of 7.6 hours; 84.1% of high school students sleep less than 8 hours a day , The average is 7.2 hours.
Second, the length of sleep on school days shows a downward trend with the increase of grades, and the phenomenon of supplementary sleep on weekends shows a differentiation in the school period.
Compared with more than 10 years ago, the sleep duration of adolescents in all schools in 2020 will show a downward trend. The average sleep duration of elementary and junior high school on school days will be reduced by about 40 minutes, and the first and second grades will be reduced by 10 to 20 minutes; the average sleep duration of elementary school students on weekends Reduce about 12 to 25.2 minutes, reduce about 20 minutes in the first and second grades, reduce 40.2 to 51.3 minutes in the third and high school stages.
Chen Zhiyan said that compared with more than 10 years ago, the mental health of young people has declined steadily.
The detection rate of depression remained basically stable, and the detection rate of mild depression increased slightly.
However, the proportion of adolescents with suicidal ideation is 6.2% higher in 2020 than in 2009, especially for girls, 10.4% higher than in 2009.
Source: China Youth Daily