Pause before you post: what do young people think about social media and their mental health?

The Lifecourse Podcast
05/11/2019 16 min
Pause before you post: what do young people think about social media and their mental health?

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In a special episode of the Lifecourse Podcast, guest host UCL PhD student Emma Walker discusses young people's social media use and their mental health. Her guests are undergraduate students, Loes Wal, Kritika Rai and Alyson Ong. With support from ICLS and the National Literacy Trust they put on a workshop for 50 schoolchildren discussing their thoughts and attitudes about their social media use and research from Professor Yvonne Kelly showing a link between heavy social media use and increased depressive symptoms.  Read the full research paper Read a blog by Yvonne Kelly about the research  Read a blog for the Royal Society for Public Health from Emma Walker  National Literacy Trust 

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