Psychosocial And Neuropsychological Factors Associated With Anxiety In Gen Z: A Scoping Review

Abstract

As the increasing rate of anxiety in youth is quite noticeable. But what’s truly attention grabbing is that Gen Z is becoming increasingly serious about rising levels of anxiety. Regarding this, there could be a lot of psychosocial and neuropsychological factors like academic pressure, excessive use of social media, pandemic covid 19, trait anxiety, climate change, dysfunctioning of amygdale, neurotransmitters and prefrontal cortex. This scoping review examined all those factors that mainly contributes in increasing levels of anxiety in Gen Z. This scoping review design extracted 13 articles that met the inclusion criteria, the research design includes Quantitative researches i.e correlational, online surveys, cross sectional, longitudinal cohort study designs, longitudinal quantitative neuroimaging study. Overall, all the studies collectively showed that both psychosocial factors and neuropsychological mechanisms interact and involved to influence the anxiety in Gen Z.

Keywords: Gen Z, Anxiety, Depression, Social media, Academic pressure.