Key points

Social media and video game use during the most vulnerable periods has a high potential for compulsive use.

Early monitoring and guidance may be a critical in childhood to adolescence to prevent harm from screen use.

If your child’s screen use feels “out of control,” this may be a warning sign of dependency.

This study arrives amid growing concern about social media ’s role in the youth mental health crisis. While many recent studies have focused their attention on: How much screen time is too much?, Xiao and colleagues from Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University suggest that in addition to studying the impact of quantity of social media use, we need to look at the quality of engagement, and whether one’s relationship with social media also plays a vital role

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