Improve Mental Health By Limitting Use Of Social Media – BionicOldGuy

A latest examine at Iowa State University confirmed that varied necessary psychological well being indicators are considerably improved by voluntarily limiting the usage of social media to not more than half-hour a day. This was reported in an article in Neuroscience News:

“Key Facts:

1. Participants who restricted their social media utilization to half-hour a day demonstrated a major discount in nervousness, melancholy, loneliness, and worry of lacking out.
2. The examine discovered that striving to scale back social media utilization, even when sometimes exceeding the restrict, nonetheless yielded optimistic psychological well being advantages.
3. The researchers counsel this self-limiting methodology of lowering social media utilization, which may very well be extra sensible than strict abstention, could function an efficient intervention towards rising psychological well being points amongst younger adults.”

Since 45% of US teenagers are on-line “almost constantly” (a quantity that has doubled since 2014) [1], half-hour a day constitutes a major social media “diet” however is very advisable given the well being advantages.

I mentioned the dangerous impact of social media use within the part on mindfulness right here, so I don’t discover these outcomes to be shocking. There is an efficient article with recommendations on extra wholesome use of social media right here.

References

1. Anderson, M., & Jiang, J. (). Teens, social media & know-how (Vol. 31). Pew Research Center, 2018.