Here’s what the research has shown about the effect of social media use on kids’ and teens’ mental health.
By Tatum Hunter, The Washington PostA teenager holds her phone as she sits for a portrait in a park near her home in Illinois, on Friday, March 24, 2023.
There is evidence that adverse mental health symptoms among kids and teens have risen sharply, beginning during the global financial crisis in 2007 and skyrocketing at the beginning of the pandemic. But research into social media’s role has produced conflicting takeaways. In a Monday opinion essay in the New York Times, Murthy also called for social media companies to share data and research into health effects so independent experts can examine it. “While the platforms claim they are making their products safer, Americans need more than words. We need proof,” he wrote.Sometimes, social media appears to boost anxiety and depression. Other times, it appears to boost well-being and connectedness, according to a 2022 analysis of 226 studies.
David Yeager, a developmental psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, said some possible contenders are social comparison, where we weigh our own life next to another person’s. Or maybe it’s guilt, where we feel lazy or unproductive after spending time scrolling. Of course, disappointment and guilt are age-old feelings, but social media may provoke them, Yeager said.
One way they accomplish that is by gaming our attention or emotions. Washington Post reporting has shown, for instance, that Facebook’s algorithm at one point weighed the anger reaction more strongly than a “like” because outrage tended to create more engagement.
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