2023-10-16 11:03:00
Montevideo, Oct 16 (Prensa Latina) A report sponsored by the Ministry of Social Development shows here today a situation of deterioration in terms of well-being and mental health in young people and adolescents.
The research shows that in these age groups many “feel sad or hopeless to the point of stopping doing their activities,” commented the director of the National Youth Institute (INJU), Felipe Paullier.
The Youth Panel report, as part of the National Survey of Adolescence and Youth, was presented jointly with the INJU and the United Nations Population Fund.
The research allows us to observe behaviors in moments such as the exit of young people from the educational system, entry into the labor market, leaving the home of origin, beginning of reproductive life, as well as well-being and mental health.
The study indicates that there is a postponement in terms of age in achieving the main milestones of transition to adult life.
The postponement of the age at which formal studies are interrupted translates into a tendency to remain within the educational system longer, which is why the proportions of course attendance are higher in 2022 than in young people aged 16 to 19 in 2018. and 2013.
On the contrary, in entering the labor market a decreasing trend is observed among the surveys.
The same occurs with the proportion of those who experience the transition to adulthood regarding forming their own home.
There is also a lower proportion of people satisfied with their personal economic situation in 2022 (37.1 percent) compared to four years earlier (81.0 percent). The same happens with the reality of the home economy.
The proportions of young people between 16 and 19 years old who report, in the last twelve months, having suffered some type of violence, abuse and discrimination, are relatively high, the report states.
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