{"id":95234,"date":"2025-04-25T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95234"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:59:52","slug":"teens-social-media-and-mental-health-faverio-anderson-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/04\/25\/teens-social-media-and-mental-health-faverio-anderson-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens, Social Media and Mental Health [Faverio, Anderson, &#038; Park]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2025\/04\/22\/teens-social-media-and-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Teens, Social Media and Mental Health<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from pewresearch.org by Michelle Faverio, Monica Anderson, and Eugenie Park<br \/>\n<em>Most teens credit social media with feeling more connected to friends. Still, roughly 1 in 5 say social media sites hurt their mental health, and growing shares think they harm people their age<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Rising rates of\u00a0poor mental health among youth\u00a0have been called a national crisis. While this is often linked to factors like the\u00a0COVID-19 pandemic or poverty, some officials, like former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, name social media\u00a0as a major threat\u00a0to teenagers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our latest survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 and their parents finds that parents are generally more worried than their children about the mental health of teenagers today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And while both groups call out social media\u2019s impact on young people\u2019s well-being, parents are more likely to make this connection.1<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Still, teens are growing more wary of social media for their peers. Roughly half of teens (48%) say these sites have a mostly negative effect on people their age, up from 32% in 2022. But fewer (14%) think they negatively affect them personally.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/04\/PI_2025.04.22_teens-social-media-mental-health_0-01.png\" width=\"50%\" height=\"50%\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teens, Social Media and Mental Health &#8212; from pewresearch.org by Michelle Faverio, Monica Anderson, and Eugenie Park Most teens credit social media with feeling more connected to friends. Still, roughly 1 in 5 say social media sites hurt their mental health, and growing shares think they harm people their age Rising rates of\u00a0poor mental health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,848,46,560,309,101,248,217,105,480,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-emotion","category-k-12-related","category-parents-guardians","category-platforms","category-psychology","category-relationships","category-research","category-social-media","category-society","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95240,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95234\/revisions\/95240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}