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The Potential Benefits of Social Media Use Among Children and Adolescents. Social media can provide benefits for some youth by providing positive community and connection with others who share identities, abilities, and interests.
- Office of the Surgeon General (OSG)
- 2023
Feb 3, 2022 · As children and teens increasingly go online for entertainment and connection, parents, scholars, and policymakers are concerned that young people’s biology is making them particularly vulnerable to—and in some cases, even exploited by—social media.
During the Covid-19 pandemic’s periods of quarantine, social media provided critical connections with school, relatives, and peers. Social media are credited with promoting various facets of young people’s development (e.g., cognitive, social, and emotional knowledge, skills, and attitudes).
Feb 21, 2018 · The current generation of adolescents grows up in a media-saturated world. However, it is unclear how media influences the maturational trajectories of brain regions involved in social...
- Eveline A. Crone, Elly A. Konijn
- 2018
How Technology, Social Media, and Current Events Profoundly Affect Adolescents examines 18 contemporary issues and their impact on the biological, psychological, and social domains in adolescents. Using research and clinical studies in each chapter, it reviews biological issues that include sleep, obesity, and stress.
children and young people’s social media use. To support effective policy, practice and service innovation, this review examined literature published since 2010 on children and young people's use of social media and effects on their wellbeing.
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Jul 1, 2020 · Rigorous analyses of 2,155 real-time assessments showed that the association between social media use and affective well-being differs strongly across adolescents: While 44% did not feel...
