Children reporting addictive online behaviour suffer worse mental health

“Our study suggests that policy efforts should move away from generic limits on screen time and instead focus on identifying and addressing addictive patterns of screen use,” said Yunyu Xiao, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian.

“This challenges the prevailing narrative, which often equates more screen time with greater harm. In contrast, we found that it is how young people use technology — not how much — that matters most.”

Nice to see we’re starting to dig into the complexity of this issue.