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Feb 20, 2024 · Why does social media use seem to trigger mental health problems? Why are those effects unevenly distributed among different groups, such as girls or young adults?
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- On This Page
- Introduction
- Mental Health of Canadian Adolescents
- Risk of Problematic Social Media Use by Characteristics
- Association Between Mental Health and Problematic Social Media Use by Gender
- Limitations
- Conclusions
- Methods
- Acknowledgements
According to the World Health Organization, around 10 to 20% of all children and adolescents worldwide live with mental health problems.Footnote 1 Approximately 50% of mental health diagnoses are received by adolescents at the age of 14 years and 75% at the age of 19 years.Footnote 1 The use of social media use is a central focus in the lives of ma...
Grades 6 to 8 students reported having better mental health than Grades 9 to 10 students. For both boys and girls, the prevalence of psychological symptoms and emotional problems increased, and the prevalence of high life satisfaction decreased, from Grades 6 to 8 to Grades 9 to 10. Boys reported having better mental health than girls. More girls t...
Overall, 6.85% of students were classified as having problematic social media use (PSMU), 33.14% of students as being at moderate risk for PSMU and 60.00% of students as being at low risk for PSMU. Girls were more likely to be classified as having PSMU (7.96%) than boys (5.35%). Students in Grades 9 to 10 were more likely to be classified as having...
Moderate risk of PSMU and PSMU were associated with a greater risk of reporting high psychological symptoms and emotional problems for both boys and girls. In addition, moderate risk of PSMU and PSMU was negatively associated with high life satisfaction. The association between PSMU and psychological problems was stronger for boys (PSMU RR = 3.15) ...
All research studies have limitations, and it is important to interpret results in light of their limitations. 1. All data in the HBSC were collected using self-report, which is prone to reporting biases. For example, youth have difficulty recalling past social media use.Footnote 7 Light mobile phone users tend to overestimate their use, while heav...
Nearly one third of adolescents reported high psychological symptoms; about 14% reported high emotional problems; and only about half reported high life satisfaction. With 40% of adolescents being classified as having PSMU or at moderate risk for PSMU, it is important to understand the implications this technological trend has on the mental health ...
Data source
Data were from the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, a national cross-sectional study of adolescents conducted every four years since 1989-90.Footnote 9 In 2018, data were collected in school settings from a nationally representative random two-stage cluster sample of adolescents in grades 6 to 10 from all provinces and two territories in Canada. For this study, we included the 15,184 participants who responded to items on social media use.* *Refer to the interna...
Measures
Mental health measures included psychological symptoms, emotional problems, and life satisfaction. Psychological symptoms were measured from the HBSC symptom checklistFootnote 11 that asked about the frequency of four psychological health complaints over the past 6 months, including "feeling low/depressed", "irritability or bad temper", feeling nervous", and "difficulties getting to sleep". Responses were scored on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (rarely or never) to 5 (about every day) (α = 0...
Statistical analyses
We tested the association between PSMU and mental health measures using modified poisson regression models to estimate the relative risk of high psychological symptoms, emotional problems, and life satisfaction in unadjusted models and in models adjusted for gender, grade, country of birth, perceived family wealth. We further conducted stratified analyses by gender and grade. We presented the predicted probabilities of high psychological symptoms, emotional problems, and life satisfaction (fr...
Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) is an international study carried out in collaboration with the World Health Organization, European Region (WHO/EURO). The International HBSC Coordin...
Oct 1, 2021 · How do you think social media affects your mental health? What has your experience been on different social media apps? Are there apps that have a more positive or negative effect on your...
Sep 1, 2023 · As youth mental health continues to suffer, parents, teachers, and legislators are sounding the alarm on social media. But fear and misinformation often go hand in hand. APA’s recommendations aim to add science-backed balance to the discussion.
May 25, 2023 · The teenagers’ reactions came hours after the United States surgeon general’s warning on Tuesday that social media can be a “profound risk” to the mental health and well-being of young...
Apr 20, 2022 · You might already know social media can potentially hamper mental health. But you might have less awareness of exactly how. Social media could negatively affect mental well-being by: Making...
