It has been pointed out that the claim that ``SNS is to blame for the deterioration of young people's mental health'' may distract from how to deal with the true cause.



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Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, who wrote a book review for the scientific journal Nature, responded to his new book's claim that ``SNS has a negative impact on the mental health of young people.'' Scholar Candace L. Odgers disagrees.

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Mr. Odgers is a member of Mr. Haidt's new book, 'The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.' ), he predicts that it will sell well because it tells the horrifying stories about child development that many parents have been led to believe. The scientific community does not support the claim that we are altering our wiring and causing mental illness.'

According to Odgers, Hite's argument is that ``children's brains are rewired when they are exposed to addictive content through their eyes and ears,'' and ``Social media has a negative impact on physical play and interpersonal relationships.'' By replacing them, they have restructured childhood and changed human development on an unimaginable scale.''

The book includes a graph showing that both ``the use of digital technology'' and ``mental health problems among adolescents'' are increasing. However, Odgers said, ``On the first day of a statistics class, it will be useful to teach students the basics of causal inference and how to avoid making up stories just by looking at trend lines.'' is under way.

The study of youth mental health and social media is something that hundreds of researchers are already working on, and Odgers says there's a lot of data showing a correlation, and that 'young people with mental health problems... Although it can be said that ``people tend to use SNS more frequently or use them differently than healthy young people,'' it does not mean that ``SNS use causes depression.''



At the very least, ``SNS use does not rewire children's brains or worsen their mental health,'' and ``SNS needs reform given the amount of time young people spend on them.'' This can be done independently, Odgers said.

In terms of 'SNS reform,' measures such as imposing age-based restrictions or banning the use of mobile devices are not only ineffective, but also have the opposite effect on adolescents. Odgers points out that this is likely.

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