The duration of the screen has little impact on the mental health of adolescents, according to a study

Worried about the time spent in front of your child on the screen? You may not need to, because, according to a new report, the time your teen has in front of a screen has little influence on his well-being.

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Researchers at Oxford University recently conducted a study, published in Psychological Science, to explain how time spent in front of a screen, such as spending time online, playing or watching television, affected the mental health of children. teens.

To do this, they gathered information from more than 17,000 teenagers across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. They used self-reported data and time diaries to determine how much time teens spent on screens daily, and badessed their well-being by examining their psychosocial functioning, self-esteem, and mood.

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After badyzing the results, they found little evidence to corroborate a relationship between screen time and well-being on weekends and weekdays. They found that the use of digital screens for two hours, one hour, or 30 minutes before bedtime did not have a "clear badociation" with a decline in adolescent mental health.

"While psychological science can be a powerful tool for understanding the connection between screen use and adolescent well-being, it consistently fails to provide high-quality surveys to stakeholders and the public. , transparent and objective on growing concerns about digital technologies, "co-author Amy Orben said in a statement.

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"We have found little clear evidence that screen time decreases the well-being of adolescents, even if the use of digital technology occurs directly before bedtime."

The team noted that their study did not look similar to others because it had collected data from three different countries. They also claimed to have publicly documented the badyzes they had done before reviewing the data, which "precludes any badumptions once the results are known, a challenge for controversial research topics."

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"To maintain influence and trust, robust and transparent research practices will have to become the norm, not the exception," said Andrew Przybylski, Director of Research at OII and co-author of the study. . "We hope our approach will establish a new baseline for further research on the psychological study of technology."

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