Audio long read: Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Nature Podcast
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4.4 • 859 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Research shows that, over the past two decades, rates of mental illness have been increasing in adolescents in many countries. While some scientists point to soaring use of smartphones and social media as a key driver for this trend, others say the evidence does not show a large effect of these technologies on teenagers’ psychological health.
At the heart of the dispute is a large, complex and often conflicting body of research that different researchers interpret in different ways. This has left parents unsure what to do.
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| 1:09.0 | do smartphones and social media really harm teens mental health, written |
| 1:13.8 | by Helen Pearson and read by me, Benjamin Thompson? |
| 1:18.9 | There's a book perched near the top of the New York Times bestseller list about what's |
| 1:24.8 | wrong with kids today. |
| 1:27.1 | The anxious generation by psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that increasing time spent on |
| 1:33.8 | smartphones and social media at the expense of play is rewiring the brains of children and |
| 1:40.6 | adolescents and driving soaring rates of mental illness. It leapt to the top of the |
| 1:46.9 | bestseller list when it was released a year ago and has sat there ever since. The book reinforced |
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