{"id":678719,"date":"2026-07-07T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678719\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:27:11","slug":"uk-media-consumption-trends-2026-do-brits-think-social-media-and-screen-time-affects-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678719\/","title":{"rendered":"UK media consumption trends 2026: Do Brits think social media and screen time affects wellbeing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What negative effects do people in UK associate with media consumption?<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b9ka0\">Although many adults feel media consumption has a neutral overall effect on wellbeing, a majority associate it with at least one negative consequence.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"84fv6\">The most commonly cited negative consequence of media consumption is spending more time than intended (51%). Other frequently mentioned effects include sleep disruption (31%), reduced focus or attention span (28%), reduced productivity (26%) and information overload (24%).<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"gost\">Mental wellbeing concerns are also common. Nearly one in five adults who consume media associate consumption with increased anxiety or stress (19%), while 17% link it to low mood or feelings of depression. Around 17% say media consumption leads them to compare themselves with others on social media, and 15% report feeling overwhelmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What negative effects do people in UK associate with media consumption? Although many adults feel media consumption has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}