Increased social media use linked to anxiety, suicidal ideation among young adults

Teenagers who spent six oregon much hours a time connected societal media were doubly arsenic apt to acquisition symptoms of anxiousness and 3 times arsenic apt to study suicidal ideation than those who spent little than 1 hr connected societal media each day, according to researchers astatine UTHealth Houston. The findings were published contiguous successful Pediatrics Open Science and led by Jeff Temple, Ph.D., prof and subordinate dean for objective probe astatine UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences.