Proved: TV and social networks lead to depression
News / / December 19, 2019
The time that adolescents spend in their smartphones - and in social networks as a whole - leading to symptoms depression. About it writes Canadian edition of CBC, citing a study that conducted in the hospital of San Justine (Montreal).
Scientists have studied the behavior of 3800 adolescents in the period from 2012 to 2018. To do this, volunteers recruited from 31 Montreal schools. Their behavior and health was monitored from the 7th to 11th grade. Students Weekly is reporting how many hours they spent on social networks, video games and watching TV.
As a result, the symptoms of depression were found in subjects who spent on social networks and more TV time than their peers. In particular, the "increase in symptoms of depression associated with an activity on platforms such as InstagramWhere teenagers are most inclined to compare their lives with the glamorized images they see in the film. "
scientists also analyzedWhether social networks "to take the time that the children would otherwise be spent on other activities, reducing the symptoms of depression." As a result, this hypothesis has been disproved.
Surprisingly, hours spent in videograh not done teenagers more depressed. "The researchers suggest that gamers usually are not isolated from society, given that 70% of them played mostly with other people - online or live," writes the CBC.
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