Is social media to blame for the teen mental health crisis? It's complicated!
Thanks to Emily Weinstein, Amy Orben, Andrew Przybylski, Dean Burnett, Michael Mullarkey and Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz for help researching and fact-checking this episode!
Where to find us:
Sources:
- Emily Weinstein's book, "Behind Their Screens"
- Positive and negative uses of social media among adolescents hospitalized for suicidal behavior
- The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics
- The Relationship Between Online Social Networking and Depression: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies
- Online "predators" and their victims
- The Coddling of the American Parent
- No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression
- How technology is transforming the ways in which children play
- Banning mobile phones in schools in Spain
- No One Knows Exactly What Social Media Is Doing To Teens
- Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media
- Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all
- How Smartphones Affect the Social-Emotional Development of Adolescents
- Social media use and its impact
- Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being
- A School-Level Analysis of Adolescent Extracurricular Activity
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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