We need to talk about teens, social media and mental health
I pretty much got off of it a while ago. But sometimes it feels like social media runs our lives. The association weighed in on this for the first time ever. *across the board 전반적으로 Well, across the board, she could see rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness. Years later, we have a fraught relationship with social media, but should we finally call it quits? *fraught (좋지 않은 것들[이]) 투성이의[가득한], 걱정스러운, 걱정하는 (=tense) And they do this even with no data or shady data. *shady (부정·불법 등의) 수상한 구석이 있는, (빛이 바로 닿지 않게) 그늘이 드리워진 *warrant ~을 정당[타당]하게 만들다, 필요하게 하다 Like, is the worry warranted? *Gen Z generation: 1999년생부터 2015년생 *nosedive 급락, 폭락, (항공기의) 급강하, 급락하다 (=plummet), 급강하하다 *takes a nosedive 급격히 감소하다 But then, in 2010, it takes a nosedive. *seismic [ˈsaɪzmɪk] (영향·규모가) 엄청난, 지진의 It's like this seismic shift. This is alarming. 이건 정말 걱정스러운 일이에요. *for one thing (여러 이유들 중에서) 우선 한가지 이유는 Not getting enough sleep is a major risk factor for anxiety and depression and self-harm. *escalate 확대, 악화되다 So things have really escalated in the last decade. that's the case. 그게 사실입니다. This week, the American Psychological Association issued its first-of-kind guidelines for parents to increase protection for teens online. It comes at a time of rising rates of depression and anxiety among teens.
This episode, NPR science correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff looks into the data on how that change has impacted the mental health of teenagers. In her reporting, she found that the seismic shift of smartphones and social media has re-defined how teens socialize, communicate and even sleep.
In 2009, about half of teens said they were using social media daily, reported psychologist Jean Twenge. And last year, 95% of teens said they used some social media, and about a third said they use it constantly.