If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline via call, text or chat. A new study finds that addiction to social media, mobile phones and video games is linked to ...

Problematic patterns of digital media use — including compulsive social media scrolling, gaming, or phone checking — may be more harmful to adolescent mental health than overall screen time, new ...

In 1995 the Internet was born. In 2007, the iPhone was introduced. No one warned the 12-year-olds at the time. Now they are 43, and more than one generation is struggling to deal with new forms of ...

Mobile short-video addiction has been linked to students’ academic disengagement, yet the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this association remain insufficiently understood. This study ...

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