Smartphone can help children socialize
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A survey of more than 1500 children suggests that smartphones may benefit from their mental and social well-being – unless social media begins to use.
Justin Martin In Southern Florida, they were surveyed among children between 11 and 13 to open in the state 25-year-old national study To browse the link between digital media and well-being.
Researchers found that 78% of the respondents were owned by a smartphone and, of which 21 per cent is symptoms of depression and anxiety compared to 26% of the devices. Children with phones spend more time with friends.
“We believed that smartphone property would be associated with negative results or negative measures,” says Martin. “But that’s not like that.”
Researchers discovered that the children with parents parents were owned by a smartphone than those with parents. Smartphone’s highest prevalence of ownership of 87% were found in children living in homes that earn between $ 50,000 and 90,000, 67% of children of 150,000 children of $ 150,000.
When Martin had influenced the richest parents, they believe they are reflecting their children’s policies.
But such bans – Florida was the first US state in 2023, it may be in the scientific field, Martin says. “We were careful than the causes that highlighted the associations, but children with smartphones probably use it for social purposes, and many adults do it,” he noted.
However, not all smartphone uses is not a good benefit. Researchers also found that children’s frequently published in social media are subject to sleep issues and symptoms of depression or anxiety compared to those who never use these platforms. That said, the survey could not be identified whether social media is caused by health and sleep issues, or not, Martin said.
“Parents and adults recommend trying to keep kids from social platforms frequently or try to post on social platforms,” says Martin says. “But of course, it’s hard to say to a child:” You can use Instagram, you can use Tiktok, but you don’t have a message.
The children surveyed were equally distributed to merit social media, agreed with 34 percent, agree that social media agrees more than good, and the rest without specifying the subject.
“It is a fascinating study, which makes important distinctions, especially among smartphones and social media,” says Jess Maddox At the University of Alabama. “While both of them become synonymous, this research is not actually the same.”
“These are parents, educators and politicians thinking more education on smartphones and social media, because it is not,” he explained.
David Ellis In Bath University, the United Kingdom, the work confirms similar findings similar to previous studies, but the data they understand what they understand, to decide what to do about the use of children’s smartphone.
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