Overall, teens who found support online — such as chatting with friends via WhatsApp or joining multiplayer online video games — reported less loneliness.
A new research has found that the problem is not the number of hours teenagers spent online during the lockdown, but the quality of their online interactions. The study has been published in the ‘Journal of Research on Adolescence’. Overall, teens in the study who found support online — such as chatting with friends and relatives via WhatsApp or joining multiplayer online video games — reported less loneliness.
“Our findings support our hypothesis that how you spend your time on screens, and not how much time you spend online, is the best predictor of loneliness and well-being,” said study lead author Dr Lucia Magis-Weinberg, a developmental scientist with UC…
