One in Five Teens and Young Adults Struggle With Depression; Faith May Be the Answer [Video]

When asked, nearly 75% of Gen Z say they’re happy, the Gallup-Walton Family Foundation Voices of Gen Z study recently discovered.

Surveyors found that the level of fulfillment Gen Zers experience in school and work has a major impact on happiness.

Fourteen-year-old Grant Miller of Charlotte, N.C. is among those in Gen Z who have seen school make or break how happy he feels. His 7th grade year was tough, he said, but he became happier when his grades improved during his recent 8th grade year.

“School drains me so emotionally that normal things I typically enjoy don’t seem fun anymore,” Miller says. “But 8th grade was 1,000% better than 7th grade. I didn’t have to worry about school, academically.”

Thirteen-year-old Elliot Boyd, a middle schooler who recently switched from public school to a parochial school in Portland, Ore., agrees that his fulfilling school life has increased his overall contentment. “I get to hang out with my friends all day,” …