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News,7 mins

The smartphone generation 'is not prepared for adulthood'

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US Psychologist, Dr Jean Twenge, has been researching the interesting and sometimes unpleasant effects of mobile phone addiction on young people who have never known anything but a world with social media, Google and Amazon. Her new book is called iGen - Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood - and What That Means for the Rest of Us. (Photo: Girl using mobile phone Credit: Getty Images)

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