Eye-opening testimony from a top scientist offers a useful primer on the role social media may play in the teen mental health crisis.
, along with dozens of useful footnotes, offers some much-needed clarity about the role social media may play in contributing to this teen mental health crisis. For you busy parents, caregivers and educators out there, we've distilled it down to 10 useful takeaways:Humans are social creatures, and we learn through social interaction.
"Research suggests that young people form and maintain friendships online. These relationships often afford opportunities to interact with a more diverse peer group than offline, and the relationships are close and meaningful and provide important support to youth in times of stress." That's because, as children enter puberty, the areas of the brain"associated with our craving for 'social rewards,' such as visibility, attention, and positive feedback from peers" tend to develop well before the bits of the brain"involved in our ability to inhibit our behavior, and resist temptations," Prinstein said. Social media platforms that reward teens with"likes" and new"followers" can trigger and feed that craving.
Prinstein spoke specifically about sites or accounts that promote eating disordered behaviors and nonsuicidal self-injury, like self-cutting.
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