Can mental disorders spread among peers? Researchers now say that mental health issues can be transmitted among adolescent social groups, particularly disorders connected to mood, anxiety, and eating.
Earlier studies have shown the possibility of depressive symptoms being transmitted from one individual to another in social networks. In the latest large-scale study involving more than 700,000 ninth-grade pupils from 860 Finnish schools, researchers evaluated the spread of mental disorders in social networks formed by school classes.
