New research found no correlation between screen time and negative effects on mental health.
team of researchers at UC Irvine
surveyed over 2,000 young people between the ages of 10 and 15, and tracked a subsample of nearly 400 North Carolina public school students, to understand their smartphone use. Over the course of two weeks beginning in 2016, they looked at whether the teens who engaged more with their phones were more likely to experience mental health symptoms overtime. They also analyzed whether their mental health was worse on days when they reported spending more versus less time on technology.
"Contrary to the common belief that smartphones and social media are damaging adolescents' mental health, we don't see much support for the idea that time spent on phones and online is associated with increased risk for mental health problems," Michaeline Jensen, assistant professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,Teens who communicated more over texts during the study, actually reported feeling less depressed than teens who were less frequent...
While this research doesn't discount the fact that social media can take a toll on mental health, it does put into question how we view teens and technology.earlier this month, found that the relationship between social media and depression in teens is more complex than experts thought—specifically for girls.
Through interviews with almost 10,000 children between the ages of 13 and 16 in England between 2013 and 2015, researchers found that the real detriment of social media was that it was increasing girls' exposure to bullying and reducing their sleep and physical exercise. Proving, it wasn't necessarily social media that was to blame for
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