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Old 05-21-2007, 11:49 AM   #56
SteveDallas
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Originally Posted by Aliantha View Post
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."

Could this be true?
Sure it could. I'd be interested to pick apart some of the categories. Why college students? Do non-college students give the same answers? Do females? Why or why not?

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Originally Posted by Aliantha View Post
What concerns me is the growing level of 'sadness' - for want of a better word - in youth culture today.
In The Optimistic Child, psychologist Martin Seligman argues that the epidemic of childhood depression is a direct result of the self-esteem movement.
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