{"id":675,"date":"2025-05-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2025-06-12T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:52:41","slug":"social-media-use-may-cause-depression-among-young-people-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/social-media-use-may-cause-depression-among-young-people-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media use may cause depression among young people, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/social-media-use-may-cause-depression-among-young-people-new_gr61.640.jpg\">The study&#x27;s author explains what parents can glean from the data.<\/p>\n<p>For years, research on <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> and youth <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health<\/a> has tried to answer a perplexing question: Does use lead to worsened well-being or do young people who are struggling disproportionately spend their time on social media? <\/p>\n<p>Some studies have indicated that both scenarios are true \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study&#x27;s author explains what parents can glean from the data. For years, research on social media and youth mental health has tried to answer a perplexing question: Does use lead to worsened well-being or do young people who are struggling disproportionately spend their time on social media? Some studies have indicated that both scenarios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}