Social media is often seen as a key factor in declining mental health among our children, but getting enough sleep, seeing friends and exposure to bullying are much more important, according to a new study.
Young girls report lower levels of well-being than boys, but a new report suggests it's not because of social media Social media is often accused of damaging children’s mental health - but a new study suggests it is not to blame.
The study identifies a deterioration in children’s feelings of well-being, with an increase in the number of children aged 10-15 and young people aged 16-24 reporting being relatively unhappy over the last decade. But the researchers found that social media use was not a significant factor in worsening child mental health.
‘Social media use had one of the smallest effects of all the factors we examined: getting enough sleep and seeing friends were about three times larger,’ they concluded. Any negative impact of social media was likely to be through cyber-bullying, or displacing protective factors such as seeing friends, sleep and physical activity, they added.released by the U.K.’s chief medical officers earlier this year, which found that there was little causal evidence for an association between screen time and well-being.
Well-being declined as children got older, and girls were slightly more likely to report lower feelings of well-being than boys.
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