{"id":2818,"date":"2025-06-10T13:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/passive-scrolling-causes-teens-risk-of-anxiety-and-depression-to-increase\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:11:37","slug":"passive-scrolling-causes-teens-risk-of-anxiety-and-depression-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/passive-scrolling-causes-teens-risk-of-anxiety-and-depression-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive scrolling causes teens&#039; risk of anxiety and depression to increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-10 13:11:37<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Two hours of passive scrolling can increase teenagers&#8217; risks of anxiety and depression.<BR><br \/>\nNeuroscientists studied 580 youngsters &#8211; who told them if they had pre-existing mental health conditions, their levels of anxiety, as well as if they had emotional and behavioural difficulties &#8211; for nine months.<BR><br \/>\nThe time the teens spent looking at their devices, as well as their screen-use behaviours were also examined.<BR><br \/>\nThe experts found 45 per cent of the 12 to 17-year-olds &#8211; who said they had no pre-existing mental health conditions &#8211; had psychiatric symptoms.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Emma Duerden, Canada\u2019s research chair in neuroscience and learning disorders, is quoted by MailOnline as saying: &#8220;This is really surprising.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It is much higher than we would expect to see. Before Covid, rates of anxiety in adolescents were between 8 and 15 per cent. Now, we see almost half of the sample size reporting heightened anxiety, which is alarming.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nShe encouraged parents to limit their child&#8217;s screen time to two hours or less a day because it would improve their wellbeing.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Duerden added: &#8220;In past studies, we\u2019ve shown some teens reporting 15 hours of screen time a day. They wake up, go on a screen and stay the whole day. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This is a critical period for brain and behavioural development, including emotional regulation and impulse control.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-10 13:11:37 Two hours of passive scrolling can increase teenagers&#8217; risks of anxiety and depression. Neuroscientists studied 580 youngsters &#8211; who told them if they had pre-existing mental health conditions,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}