Effects of Social Media on Teenagers’ Mental Health

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220401.204How to use a DOI?

Keywords

teenagers; social media; anxiety; depression; mental health

Abstract

Teenagers spend a significant amount of time on social media with no age restrictions. Spending too much time on social media cause teenager to encounter health issues such as anxiety, depression, and inclination toward suicide. This paper examined the reason behind teenagers’ anxiety and depression was because spending time on social media limited their time to engage in face-to-face interactions. This study planned to conduct a questionnaire survey to collect data, and the research found that social media had various negative effects on teenagers’ mental health.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haoyue Yuan
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - Effects of Social Media on Teenagers’ Mental Health
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1069
EP  - 1072
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.204
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.204
ID  - Yuan2022
ER  -