‘Most mentally healthy [adult] respondents are those who did not get a telephone until their late teens,’ wrote the psychologists Early smartphone use is associated with decreased mental health in adulthood, according to analysis by top psychologists of the world’s largest mental health database. The younger the age you get your first smartphone, the worse the mental health the young adult reports today, psychologist and New York University professor Jonathan Haidt and research assistant Zach Rausch wrote in a post on the Haidts blog, After Babel. This is true across…
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Youth smartphone use linked to future mental health problems: Study
cChildren who accessed smartphones at a young age have worse mental health outcomes as adults, according to a new study. A Sapien Labs study last month of 27,969 global Generation Z members found that the sooner a child has access to a smartphone, the more likely they are to have mental health issues in the future. GOOD MEALS: HOW MUCH SNAPS THEY GET BY STATE Children thrive most on engaging real-world family and friends in-person, exercise, volunteering, and religious activities,” said University of Virginia sociologist and Institute for Family Studies…
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