{"id":153254,"date":"2025-11-26T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/153254\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:23:16","slug":"short-form-video-linked-to-worse-cognitive-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/153254\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Form Video Linked to Worse Cognitive and Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media sites are increasingly focused on delivering short-form video (SFV). TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are dedicated to this type of content, which often lasts just a few seconds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/itp\/article-abstract\/35\/1\/67\/513999\/Exhaustion-and-dependency-a-habituation?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers have expressed concern<\/a> that SFV is negatively impacting cognition and attention and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202411.0266\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">worsening mental health<\/a>, particularly among children and young adults.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/fulltext\/2026-89350-001.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new study<\/a> has analyzed all the available data on these outcomes. Their conclusion? Spending time viewing this content has a deleterious effect on attention and inhibition, as well as anxiety and stress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur\u00a0synthesis\u00a0of 71 studies revealed that greater engagement with these platforms is associated with poorer cognitive and\u00a0mental health\u00a0in both youths and adults,\u201d the researchers write.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by researchers at Griffith University, Australia, was led by Lan Nguyen and published in Psychological Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sized-Depositphotos_822877546_S.jpg\" alt=\"Young man stares at smartphone in distress symbolizing toxic impact of social media on mental health. Likes, posts and endless scrolling lead to stress, anxiety and depression. Overwhelmed user.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. All active donors get full access to all MIA content, and free passes to all Mad in America events.<\/p>\n<p>Current MIA supporters can log in below.(If you can&#8217;t afford to support MIA in this way, email us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#c6a2a9a8a7b2afa9a8b586aba7a2afa8a7aba3b4afa5a7e8a5a9ab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> and we will provide you with access to all donor-supported content.)<\/p>\n<p>Donate<\/p>\n<p>Current Supporters Log-In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social media sites are increasingly focused on delivering short-form video (SFV). TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-153254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}