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China's high housing prices are making young people feel depressed

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> China's high housing prices are making young people feel depressed. Recently, some media said that the post-80s generation is feeling depressed, triggering widespread discussion. The mental state of young people has attracted much attention from society. This...

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The results of the Beijing News' "Beijing News Survey" (jointly launched by the Beijing News' "Review Weekly" and Qingyan Consulting) show that, overall, nearly 70% of the respondents have a positive attitude towards the mental state of the post-80s generation. Only 13.6% of the respondents believe that the post-80s generation has no vitality, 49.3% of the respondents believe that most of the post-80s generation are energetic, and a small number are lifeless. 20.3% of the respondents believe that the post-80s generation is very energetic. There are also 16.8% of the respondents who believe that most people born in the 1980s are lifeless, while a small number of them are energetic. This shows that it is not a definite conclusion that the post-80s generation is in decline.

Young people who should be full of energy appear to be lifeless. What is the reason? 76.5% of the respondents believed that it was caused by "social reasons and too much pressure in life", 12.8% of the respondents believed that it was caused by "personal reasons and personality problems", and 9.9% believed that it was "caused by the surrounding environment". It can be seen that the view that the mental state of young people changes due to life stress is recognized by most people.

So, what specific pressures make young people easily become sluggish? High housing prices, job competition and life and economic problems have become the top three sources of stress, with 85.6% choosing "high housing prices" as the top priority.

How to relieve the stress of young people? 71.5% of the respondents believed that the social and public welfare system should be "further improved", 68.2% chose "learn to adjust themselves and enhance their ability to withstand stress", and 67.4% believed that "the social environment should be more relaxed to give young people more room to grow".

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