Social media and youth mental health
Screen time and social media use and their links to anxiety and depression in young people.
Papers per year
Each bar is 12 months; the last one ends 17 Oct 2026. New trials in the same years: 25, 33, 36, 33, 45.
New guidelines and consensus this year
All papers from the last 12 months
613 papers (18 Oct 2025 – 17 Oct 2026), newest first. Loading the full list…
- Associations of 24-hour movement behavior composition with depressive symptoms and problematic internet use in Chinese adolescents: A cohort studyJ Affect Disord2027 Jan 1PMID 42849854
- "I've let screens take over": Maternal Guilt About Media and Relations to Children's Problematic Media UseComput Human Behav2027 JanPMID 42626652
- Not coping with stress and screen-time: mixed methodsInt J Circumpolar Health2026 Dec 31PMID 41996205
- Cyberbullying and cyber sexual harassment as predictors of subjective health complaints. A cross-sectional study among Swedish adolescentsInt J Circumpolar Health2026 Dec 31PMID 41928418
- "With all your friends in your pocket" - a qualitative study about adolescents' experiences with social media from a health-promoting perspectiveInt J Qual Stud Health Well-being2026 Dec 31PMID 41792042
- Does exposure to potentially traumatic events moderate the longitudinal relationship between mental health and problematic media use? Moderated multiple mediation analyses within the ABCD studyEur J Psychotraumatol2026 DecPMID 42766560
- Effectiveness of the digital parental-family-centered program for problematic gaming and screen use in a clinical child and adolescent populationPublic Health Pract (Oxf)2026 DecPMID 42750879
- Behind the screen: Social media use and internalizing problems in adolescentsJ Affect Disord2026 Dec 1PMID 42546779
- Problematic social media use in adolescents: Latent profile analysis and associations with mental health outcomesJ Affect Disord2026 Nov 15PMID 42448051
- Can't Name It, Can't Log Off: Alexithymia and Problematic Internet-Related Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisCyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw2026 NovPMID 42860713Meta-analysisSystematic reviewReview
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PubMed query, searched in titles and abstracts by publication date:
("social media"[tiab] OR "screen time"[tiab]) AND (adolescen*[tiab] OR child*[tiab]) AND ("mental health"[tiab] OR depress*[tiab] OR anxiety[tiab])Trials: ClinicalTrials.gov studies first submitted in each 12-month window that match the same terms. A query can miss synonyms or catch unrelated papers, so treat counts as approximate.