Young people with no mobile phone likely to have worse mental health: Prof. O’Neill - video Dailymotion

Young people with no mobile phone likely to have worse mental health: Prof. O’Neill

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00:00Most of our young people have mobile phones.

00:02The evidence certainly for 11-year-olds is that

00:04the ones that don't have worse mental health

00:06so having access to the internet

00:08every day is a positive thing, it's a bit good.

00:10Now, if you're on social media too much

00:12your well-being

00:14goes down. So there is that correlation between

00:16length of time spent on social media

00:17and mental health. But having a phone

00:20is neither here nor there really.

00:22They all have phones, you know, whether we like it

00:24or not. They all have phones. The ones that have good

00:26mental health, the phones, they just spend less time on social

00:28media. They're doing all their stuff. You know

00:30inequality. The children

00:32who didn't have

00:33access to the internet, and for most

00:36children that was through my phone, had

00:38the poorest mental health

00:39in the screens, whatever the survey

00:42was that came out. Now that's

00:4411-year-olds. When it goes to 16 though

00:46less social media

00:48is associated with better mental

00:50health. For sure.