The research by the Nuffield Foundation’s changing adolescence programme, Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health, found that the proportion of 15- and 16-year-olds feeling anxious or depressed has doubled in the past 30 years, from one in 30 to one in 15 for boys.
The proportion of girls of the same age feeling anxious or depressed has risen from one in 10, to one in five over the same period.
The proportion of 15- and 16-year-olds with behaviour problems, according to their parents, has more than doubled from seven per cent in 1974 to 15 per cent in 1999, although researchers noted that the rate has remained static since then.
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