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The scientist adds that these trends were stronger among women than among men and consistent across all regions of the world sampled. » Indeed, among women who had a smartphone or tablet at age 6, 74% said they had mental health problems. A percentage that drops to 46% among those who had used it from the age of 18. On the men’s side, this rate goes from 42% for those who received their phone at age 6, to 36% for those who had it at the age of majority.
To explain these results, Tara Thiagarajan evokes the permanent access to social networks provided by the smartphone. ” The trajectory of decline [de la santé mentale] that we see follows the advent of smartphones, and there are many posts linking social media and smartphone to negative outcomes, so they were high on the list of potential root causes to explore she wrote in the report.
In any case, for the scientist, there is no doubt: the results of this research prove the existence ” long-term improvements in mental well-being for each year of delay in obtaining a smartphone during childhood “. According to Tara Thiagarajan, it is therefore necessary to put in place “ effective policies and interventions that can support healthy mental development in the digital age to reverse the downward trends we have seen “, she concludes.
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