Cutting socialmedia to 1 hour a day boosts self-image in young adults. mentalhealth MedTwitter
March 16, 2023
"Youth spend, on average, between 6 and 8 hours per day on screens, much of it on social media," says senior study author Gary S. Goldfield, PhD, senior scientist at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Canada.
Nancy Lee Zucker, PhD, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and director of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders, says the results provide needed data that could help guide young people and parents on optimal social media use. Zucker was not involved in the study.
During the first week, all 220 participants were told to use social media on their smartphones as they usually do. Over the next 3 weeks, 117 students were told to limit their social media use to 1 hour per day, while the rest were instructed to carry on as usual. In both groups, over 70% of participants were between age 17 and 19.
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