The good news: the decline in teenage mall shopping is slowing, and young men actually are shopping more.

The bad news: they're visiting the malls less, increasingly shopping on their phones and being as selective as their parents.

Those are the results from Piper Jaffray's 27th semiannual Taking Stock with Teens research project, which surveys some 7,500 teenagers with an average age of 16.4 years.

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