{"id":740880,"date":"2026-06-16T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740880\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:53:09","slug":"what-we-actually-know-about-youth-mental-health-and-social-media-use-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740880\/","title":{"rendered":"What we actually know about youth mental health and social media use &#8211; The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNbU9Wd3JId0FXRmRhQVJGNzlLT3k1VVZvRVRLRnM1N0MwWUVMWEZVeEM1YWdGOUNMVzViWUlfc1pPbWRDT3JjWVZsSVVmTzVtNHUyaFN0N0lOSHNMT1ZnN0h1NlRIcnZLd3A2alJmMUEyMm9YQVNtU25pVVl0czdnYXA5OGNFMHpwMjZIbHlzTGF3Q0UySVE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What we actually know about youth mental health and social media use<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixwFBVV95cUxPbG1QU1F2MGpOZGJUS24xM3RlYTdYanNfSERsUnpjeFh1NDJyMHc3bHBCcVN2MGotMGlIRWJIMmhQZ0paazdVX0JXaFRsLUpOdHFpSWVVVGI1QktiS3h1WFhTTDJIQUlrcHVkTUZqRVAwSUFzX1BJelpLVEp5YVU0cExKRE51TUxmMWF6a2pYbTB6VkNvMzlHb19yNWhubC1EbUxkTHB0bVpxU3psNUhGVEFUcWJXcllRSDNMb3NaYU5FbmpHQm9z?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The social media scrolling habit is more harmful than you think, especially for teens<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Digital Trends<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxNalRfOUt2STZrTHRWeUVMQXUzRUtMLWVnX1BfcW1ZR2JQY2Y2bEhoWk9kTjM3YmRDbUwxUGVlaWxXTDlqUEdGRmVPTmhGTTlRdkx0cV9FTEJYYWpjeGdZYnJFbksxWFZqUnZrV0ZUVEd2UDNmY3lCUUl1MFpNeFhuR2lhelBBZDIwSWlMMFRDU1dGb1dVUGhPVlBFbHQ5SHYtMW5zTXU5Y2R0a2xNaEdqM2lTS1lmUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Does Social Media Truly Destroy Teen Mental Health? The Evidence Remains Fractured<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;streamlinefeed.co.ke<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxPVm9vSUJ2QzFUQjJSMllwSXVnOWRJdE5TNEZmNk9lYmVXSHFHNGVtTk9uODFjSEJNRFZveTVZRUF0WmRneGhKNVBwRUhXNkxyR2k1UE5UcFN1cGVqNWJmTF9Nb2daTGlYNkg3bEhDOUh4YWZLR0hOSTIwWExDVTdyUE1WaGZNamVxeWh3SFVTNXNXdTFKUWxvVERjd09id0VjQjFIU2VQdFNrUXV5TEVQM1A2SXE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kids on social media more than two hours a day at higher risk of mental illness<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we actually know about youth mental health and social media use&nbsp;&nbsp;The IndependentThe social media scrolling habit is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-740880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}