{"id":86954,"date":"2026-03-26T23:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86954"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:37:25","slug":"study-links-childrens-social-media-use-with-anxiety-and-depression-in-teenage-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/study-links-childrens-social-media-use-with-anxiety-and-depression-in-teenage-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Study links children\u2019s social media use with anxiety and depression in teenage years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Zbgjq.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The link between childhood social media use and later depression is stronger for girls, says a team from Imperial College London. Photograph: posed by model; Elva Etienne\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children who are on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">social media<\/a> for more than three hours a day are more likely to develop depression and anxiety as teenagers, according to research. <del><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/study-links-children-s-social-media-use-with-anxiety-and-depression-in-teenage-years\/ar-AA1Zboxe?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c5c1d1bef84b3592168679203d5d9d&amp;ei=45\">Read More<\/a><\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children who are on\u00a0social media for more than three hours a day are more likely to develop depression and anxiety as teenagers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/children-on-phones.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86955,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86954\/revisions\/86955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}