RESEARCH REPORTS
The world changes rapidly and our minds are changing with it. Our Research Reports provide timely insights on important issues based on current data. Rather than peer review, which does not examine underlying data, our reports are based on a policy of complete data transparency. All data is freely available to academic researchers and all code books are available on request.
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Mental State of the World in 2024
Rapid Report
The Youth Mind: Rising Aggression and Anger
Rapid Report
Ultra-processed food consumption and mental wellbeing outcomes
Rapid Report
Age of First Smartphone/Tablet and Mental Wellbeing Outcomes
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February 28, 2025
While the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic may be behind us, its impact on Mind Health and Wellbeing continues to linger without signs of recovery. The global Internet-enabled population is still just managing to navigate life’s challenges and function productively. Little has changed in 2024.
Rapid Report
January 23, 2025
In this report, we deep dive into the mind of Internet-enabled 13-17-year-olds in the United States (US) and India, asking what is behind the alarming trends of increasing suicides and violence reported among adolescents by the CDC and National Mental Health statistics in India.
Rapid Report
October 10, 2024
In this report, we examine multiple aspects of work culture and structure to determine how they relate to employee mental wellbeing.
Rapid Report
June 9, 2024
In this report, we examine the association between the closeness of family relationships and the poor state of mental wellbeing among India’s young adults.
Rapid Report
March 25, 2024
In this report, we ask how one’s spirituality (or lack thereof) relates to the love you feel for others, how active religious practice drives spirituality and love, and whether love and spirituality have distinguishing impact on mental wellbeing.
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March 4, 2024
This is our fourth annual Mental State of the World Report that provides a perspective on the Internet-enabled global population. In focus this year is one key trend – that the dramatic decline in mental wellbeing that occurred between 2019 and 2020, and continued into 2021 through the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to persist with no sign of recovery.
Rapid Report
October 15, 2023
In our inaugural Mental State of India Report we show the temporal and geographic variations in mental wellbeing of primarily English speaking internet-enabled individuals living in 36 states and Union Territories of India with a particular focus on younger generations and the relationship between mental wellbeing and income.
Rapid Report
October 2, 2023
This Rapid Report describes the magnitude and breadth of the harmful effects of ultra-processed food consumption on people’s mental wellbeing around the world. We demonstrate that these effects are independent of exercise frequency and income, suggesting a causal relationship that is not mitigated by exercise and socioeconomic status.
Rapid Report
May 15, 2023
This Rapid Report shows the cumulative effect of age of first smartphone ownership during childhood on mental health and wellbeing outcomes of young adults between the ages of 18 and 24. Data were collected from January to April 2023 thereby reflecting a real-time readout of trends in a post-COVID era.
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March 1, 2023
In our 2022 Mental State of the World Report, we show mental wellbeing comparisons of 64 countries and regions, highlighting the dramatically lower mental wellbeing of younger (18-24) generations across the globe, one that largely reflects a decline of the Social Self with each younger generation. Additionally, we focus on family relationships and friendships across the globe.
Rapid Report
January 17, 2023
In this Rapid Report we provide startling evidence of the increased prevalence of childhood abuse, assault and bullying reported by young adults compared to their parents or grandparents generation.
Rapid Report
October 20, 2022
In this Rapid Report, we explore and discuss the nature of obsessive thoughts and guilt and blame that are shown to plague younger generations and show that the predominant nature of such debilitating obsessive thoughts was around relationships with others.
Rapid Report
May 12, 2022
In this Rapid Report, we explore the increasing decline in the mental wellbeing of younger generations in the Internet-enabled population of virtually every country around the world and show how these challenges point to a substantial disintegration of the Social Self, an aggregate metric of how individuals see themselves and relate to others.
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March 15, 2022
In our 2021 Mental State of the World Report, we show the mental wellbeing of the Internet- enabled populations of 34 countries, spanning 6 continents as well as highlight trends in mental wellbeing across age, gender, employment and education.
Rapid Report
October 12, 2021
As companies become more aware of the challenges of mental wellbeing, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between work and mental wellbeing so that they can ensure a more mentally healthy and fulfilled workforce. In this Rapid Report, we provide an overview of the way that work and mental wellbeing interact.
Rapid Report
May 18, 2021
In this Rapid Report, we show that 50% of people with poor mental health do not seek help and find that the major reasons for this are not knowing what kind of help to seek, thinking that it won’t make a difference, and a preference for self-help.
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March 15, 2021
In our 2020 Mental State of the World Report we compare the mental wellbeing profiles of 8 countries, as well as highlighting differences across age and gender groups. We also report on key lifestyle factors that are revealing themselves as important drivers of mental wellbeing and discuss the impact of adversities and traumas associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
