The research, commissioned by charity UK Youth and Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), revealed that one in four young people aged 16 to 25 were still unemployed at least a year after leaving education.
The study, which drew on the responses of more than 2,000 people aged 16 to 60, found 55 per cent of the "Generation Zs" - those born between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s - felt anxiety was the main reason they had not yet found a job.
Nearly a third of this cohort (31 per cent) said they had experienced anxiety and depression when job hunting and it had affected their search for work.
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