According to a research, 29% of girls who spent three or more hours per day on social media engaged in self-harm and 31% of girls who spent five or more hours on social media were depressed. Among girls who spent less than 2 hours per day on social media, 19% engaged in self-harm and 20% experienced depression.
There's been quite a lot of research done on this subject in the past few years.
The review of current literature conducted by Amanda C. Perkovich, RN, BSN, CEN (https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2103&context=etds) reveals that social media activity (including Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram) is associated with lower self-esteem in teenage females. Spending less time on social networking sites results in higher levels of self-esteem and lower levels of depression and anxiety.
The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health at Georgetown University also conducted a rapid review to update seminal research on the relation of social media and adolescent mental health. If interested, you can take a look at it here - https://www.ncemch.org/documents/Rapid-Review-Social-Media-and-Adolescents.pdf
Most of them suggest significant correlations between social media usage and adolescent mental health and behavioural issues.
Definitely. I meet girls with such problems all the time. Social media makes them believe that they are not pretty enough, smart enough, hot enough if they don't look or behave a certain way and of course it makes them self conscious and constantly comparing themselves with other girls. Aiming to rich an illusional beauty standards many girls get obsessed with their appearance and are constantly looking for validation outside of themselves, which causes several issues with their mental health.
It does but that doesn’t mean social media is bad in general. Everything, no matter how much good it does, will always have a disadvantage. Social media has a lot of benefits too, it all depends on how we use it.
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According to a research, 29% of girls who spent three or more hours per day on social media engaged in self-harm and 31% of girls who spent five or more hours on social media were depressed. Among girls who spent less than 2 hours per day on social media, 19% engaged in self-harm and 20% experienced depression.
There's been quite a lot of research done on this subject in the past few years.
The review of current literature conducted by Amanda C. Perkovich, RN, BSN, CEN (https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2103&context=etds) reveals that social media activity (including Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram) is associated with lower self-esteem in teenage females. Spending less time on social networking sites results in higher levels of self-esteem and lower levels of depression and anxiety.
The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health at Georgetown University also conducted a rapid review to update seminal research on the relation of social media and adolescent mental health. If interested, you can take a look at it here - https://www.ncemch.org/documents/Rapid-Review-Social-Media-and-Adolescents.pdf
Most of them suggest significant correlations between social media usage and adolescent mental health and behavioural issues.
Definitely. I meet girls with such problems all the time. Social media makes them believe that they are not pretty enough, smart enough, hot enough if they don't look or behave a certain way and of course it makes them self conscious and constantly comparing themselves with other girls. Aiming to rich an illusional beauty standards many girls get obsessed with their appearance and are constantly looking for validation outside of themselves, which causes several issues with their mental health.
It does but that doesn’t mean social media is bad in general. Everything, no matter how much good it does, will always have a disadvantage. Social media has a lot of benefits too, it all depends on how we use it.
Yes in my opinion. It creates a false illusion for young teenage girls and makes them feel insecure about their body/ image.