But even the lowest users of social media, kids who used it just a single hour a day or less, still scored lower, too, by an ...

Between 2008 and 2010, polarization in society increased dramatically alongside a significant shift in social behavior: the ...

Spending too much time on social media might be hurting how children think, remember, and learn. A new study published in the ...

Longitudinally increasing patterns of social media use in children was linked to lower cognitive performance 2 years later.

Social support can be the difference between life and death for children struggling with adverse childhood experiences (like ...

A new study published in the journal Development and Psychopathology provides evidence that different types of adversity in childhood may shape a young person’s mental and behavioral development in ...

Increasing social media usage among children has been linked to a decline in cognitive performance. A JAMA study involving ...

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, on Oct. 13, found that 9- to 13-year-olds ...

The team found that family conflict, particularly fighting and frequent criticism between family members, and reputational damage among peers were the strongest predictors of current mental health ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...