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Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32184
Subject(s) - harm , mental health , safe haven , social media , psychology , depression (economics) , haven , psychiatry , medicine , criminology , social psychology , political science , international economics , mathematics , combinatorics , law , economics , macroeconomics
Social media use has been linked to depression, especially in teenage girls. But a new study argues that the issue may be more complex than experts think, CNN Health reported. The research, published in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health , involved interviews with almost 10,000 children between the ages of 13 and 16 in England. The researchers found that social media may harm girls' mental health by increasing their exposure to bullying and reducing their sleep and physical exercise. “Our results suggest that social media itself doesn't cause harm, but that frequent use may disrupt activities that have a positive impact on mental health such as sleeping and exercising, while increasing exposure of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative experience of cyber‐bullying,” study co‐author Russell Viner of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health said in a statement.