Teen girls’ stunning smartphone usage revealed in new study: ‘Serious’
NY Post
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Some teen girls are clocking more than five hours a day on their smartphones — most are likely addicted to social media, a fixation that has been tied to poorer health and wellbeing, new research from Finland finds.
“The implications of nearly six hours of daily smartphone use and its associations with adolescent wellbeing are serious,” the study authors wrote in findings published Tuesday in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
In Finland, 1,164 female students 15 to 16 years old were recruited in 2022 to provide data about their screen time, which the researchers used to calculate phone usage and social media consumption.
Average daily smartphone use was 5.8 hours, and average time spent using social media was nearly four hours. No significant difference was found between weekdays or weekends.
The participants also rated their health, mood, tiredness and loneliness.
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