Multiple recent papers — longitudinal trend analyses, natural‑experiment designs, and randomized/field interventions — together now point toward a causal contribution of smartphone/social‑media uptake (post‑2012) to increases in adolescent depression, sleep loss, and social isolation. Jean Twenge’s new book synthesizes these datasets and frames the timing (smartphone adoption ~2012) as the pivot point for observed generational shifts.
— If the causal link holds, it changes priorities for schools, pediatric guidance, platform regulation (age limits, time/usage controls), and mental‑health resource allocation for youth.
2026.01.04
85% relevant
The article reiterates the core claim from that item—Gen Z mental‑health deterioration tied to digital/social‑media uptake—by offering classroom‑level observations (falls in participation, increased anxiety, memory/attention slips) that function as micro evidence consistent with the population statistics cited in the existing idea.
2023.04.25
100% relevant
Twenge’s Generations synthesis + Pew survey rates of daily/constant social‑media use + NPR’s summary that three experimental study types point in the same direction.
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