{"id":3103,"date":"2017-05-22T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:30","slug":"social-media-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/05\/22\/social-media-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media and health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The most recent study by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsph.org.uk\/our-work\/policy\/social-media-and-young-people-s-mental-health-and-wellbeing.html\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">Royal Society for Public Health<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> found in a survey of social media that Instagram was recorded as having the most negative impact on the mental well being of young people in the UK.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000\">YouTube was rated as the most positive!<\/span>\u00a0 Find out more by downloading the report which ranks the impact of social media according to the responses of a UK-based social survey.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For other useful summaries of recent research on the link between social media and mental health see:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/researchbriefings.parliament.uk\/ResearchBriefing\/Summary\/CDP-2016-0196\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">this 2016 House of Commons Library briefing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> which summarises earlier reports and concerns<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Children&#8217;s Society website has <\/span><a 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information technology and social media <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent study by Royal Society for Public Health found in a survey of social media that Instagram was recorded as having the most negative impact on the mental well being of young people in the UK.\u00a0 YouTube was rated as the most positive!\u00a0 Find out more by downloading the report which ranks the 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