Currently, smartphones are part of the daily lives of most adolescents around the world. There are many uses for this type of technology—photography, communication, graphic design, entertainment. One of the most common is social networks.
In this period, when the mobile phone has become an extension of the body of many people, many studies have been carried out in fields such as psychology. The complex relationship between social networks and mental health, especially among young people, it is the population that uses them the most and is most vulnerable to them.
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For example, since March 2020, doctors in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom have noted an increase in cases of young patients with nervous ‘tics’. According to the American media ‘The Wall Street Journal’, doctors found a common factor: most teens have seen content on TikTok from people with Tourette syndromecauses involuntary movements in the body.
The conclusion doctors draw is that some symptoms, particularly those that refer to motor health, have a social component. Like this, It is clear that social networks have a certain importance in the lives of young people and the questions asked are: What is it and how does it affect them?. This is what British scientists Amy Orben, Andrew Pryzbylski, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Rogier Kievit were trying to solve.
Over several years, the study analyzed the responses of more than 84,000 people of all ages in Great Britain, making it possible to identify the following. The overall relationship between social networks and adolescent well-being is low. However, there are periods during adolescence when heavy use of them produces less “satisfaction with life”.
Stages were defined according to age and gender factors. The first stage is young women aged 11-13 and young men aged 14-15. The second is in 19-year-old adolescents.
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Regarding the intervention of age and gender in the influence of social networks in young people, the doctors concluded that the age difference between the sexes in the trial was probably due to: Women reach puberty faster than men.
Concerning the second phase, doctors say it is an era of great social unrest and changing places: they start university, they start working or – in the countries where they work – they become independent of their parents, that is, the way they work. interact with social network changes.
Although age-old specification is a major advance for research on this topic, there are still many aspects to explore. For example, with the increase in the use of social networks in adolescents, the rates of depression, anxiety and suicide have increased in the last two years. Even so, there is still no scientific answer to explain whether there is a correlation.
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Although some scientists point to social networks as the cause of decreased analogical interaction between people, insomnia or lack of exercise in young people, and there are those who defend them as an escape route. for young people who are not good at physical social interaction.
So far, research trying to find the relationship between mental health, teen well-being, and social media hasn’t found much more than the aforementioned age groups, but they hope to continue research to show a clearer picture. .
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