While most of us believe that technostress is caused by social media, a study found that time spent on social media does not directly cause anxiety and depression in teenagers. The amount of time teenagers spend on social networking sites has risen by 62.5 per cent since 2012 and continues to grow. Just last year, the average time teenagers spent on social media was estimated at 2.6 hours per day. Critics have claimed that more screen time is increasing depression and anxiety in teenagers. However, new research led by Sarah Coyne, a professor of family life at Brigham Young University, found that the amount of time spent on social media is not directly increasing anxiety or depression in teenagers. "We spent eight years trying to really understand the relationship between time spent on social media and depression for developing teenagers," Coyne said about her study published in - Computers in Human Behaviour. "If they increased their social media time, would it make them more depressed? Also, if they decreased their social media time, were they less depressed? The answer is no. We found that time spent on social media was not what was impacting anxiety or depression," continued Coyne. Mental health is a multi-process syndrome where no one stressor is likely the cause of depression or anxiety. This study showed that it is not merely the amount of time spent on social media that's leading to an increase in depression or anxiety among adolescents. Subscribe to Times Of India's Youtube channel here:
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