YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Health and wellbeing of young people  237 more young people taking psychiatric medications ”, Dnevnik, 8 April 2017). Adults are increasingly depriving children of their freedom to manage their free time because they believe that unstructured free time is a lost time. Parents today increasingly exert control over their children, they are increasingly interested in what the child thinks and does, and less in what he feels (Maličev, 2018: “We talk too much about failures in our culture”, Delo, 18 August 2018). Loneliness is also seen as a special problem in this light (Gil, 2017: Loneliness: “A Silent Plague That Is Hurt- ing Young People Most,” The Guardian). Our data also confirm the connection between stress and family rela- tionships. The feeling that the adolescent is loved by the parents is thus negatively (r = ¬ – 0.12; p <0.01) correlated with the feeling of stress. In addition to the relationship between young people and their parents, the interesting correlates of stress also include gender (women feel more stress; r = 0.16; p <0.01), lower material status of the family (r = ¬ – 0.06; p <0.05 ), negative climate in school/workplace (both; r = 0.11; p <0.01), and the amount of time young people spend in front of computer screens and smart devices (r = 0.14; p <0, 01).