A new study casts doubt on the widely accepted notion that spending time online, gaming, or watching TV, especially before bedtime, can damage young people’s mental health. Published in Psychological Science <link>, at least one of three studies included in the report normalized results for specific content affect. Perhaps we’ve been misled?
Source: Science Daily, April 5, 2010. Link. The Oxford research analyzed data from Ireland, the U.S. and the U.K. to support its conclusions and used a rigorous methodology to gather how much time per day an adolescent spends on screens, including self-reported measures and time-use diaries.