Young people from our country are 'anxious': 'Young people have high anxiety about life in our country'

Expert psychologist and pedagogue Ebru Şen, who explained to Cumhuriyet the main reasons for future anxiety and how this process affects young people, said, “It is normal for university students to experience future anxiety depending on different variables and to have difficulty coping with this anxiety from time to time. However, this situation is seriously high in our country.”

Şen, who stated that there are many factors that cause this, said, “In addition to academic stress, the negative attitude of the mother and father, the negative effects of the education received or the inadequacy of the education, and unstable friendships can cause the individual to become a person who cannot develop himself, cannot recognize himself, and has difficulty keeping up with the struggle of life.” Şen, who said that uncertainties about the future scare young people, said, “Many factors such as the thought of having financial difficulties in the future, the concern of being unhappy at work, the thought of the possibility of the situation of the sector in which he will work getting worse, the concern of not being able to find a job, economic instability and a sense of responsibility cause anxiety about the future in young people.”