Gen Z Are Terrified Of Getting Things Wrong. Here's Why

Summary

Young people today aren’t just anxious about failure, they’re experiencing it at levels their parents never did. And the data now proves it. A recent study published in Psychological Bulletin in May 2026, co-authored by Dr Thomas Curran, Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics (LSE), analysed data from 307 studies involving more than 82,000 university students across the UK, US and Canada between 1989 and 2024. The findings are striking: “perfectionistic concerns” encompassing fear of failure, excessive concern over mistakes, indecisiveness and anxiety about…

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