The Anxious Generation

Is social media to blame for the teen mental health crisis? It's complicated!
Thanks to Emily Weinstein (mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047357/behind-their-sc…), Amy Orben (amyorben.com), Andrew Przybylski (oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/andrew-przybylski), Dean Burnett (amzn.eu/d/0YzXf9V), Michael Mullarkey (mcmullarkey.github.io) and Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz (gidmk.substack.com) for help researching and fact-checking this episode!

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Sources:
• Emily Weinstein's book, "Behind Their Screens" (mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047357/behind-their-sc…)
• Positive and negative uses of social media among adolescents hospitalized for suicidal behavior (nocklab.fas.harvard.edu/files/nocklab/files/ew…)
• The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916…)
• The Relationship Between Online Social Networking and Depression: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27732062)
• Online "predators" and their victims (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18284279)
• The Coddling of the American Parent (thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american…)
• No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression (guilfordjournals.com/doi/epdf/10.1521/jscp.201…)
• How technology is transforming the ways in which children play
• Banning mobile phones in schools in Spain (emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/AEA-05…)
• No One Knows Exactly What Social Media Is Doing To Teens (theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/soc…)
• Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media (nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29296-3#Sec2)
• Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all (media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d415…)
• How Smartphones Affect the Social-Emotional Development of Adolescents (jessup.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fall-202…)
• Social media use and its impact (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34563980)
• Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being (static1.squarespace.com/static/60283c2e174c122…)
• A School-Level Analysis of Adolescent Extracurricular Activity (researchgate.net/profile/Nick-Mcree-2/publicat…)
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