1 . Social media use has been linked to mental health, especially in teenage girls. But a new study argues that the situation may be more serious than experts think.
The research involved interviews once a year from 2013 to 2015 with almost 10, 000 children between the ages of 13 and 16 in England. They would report how many times a week they used social media on average. Based on the results,researchers would lean how dependent they were on the social media. Researchers noted that they did not get how much time those children spent on the websites, which is a limitation of the study.
“Our results suggest that social media itself doesn't cause harm, but that frequent use may subvert activities that have a positive influence on mental health such as sleeping and exercising. And then it will increase exposure (接触) of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative experience of cyber - bullying (网络欺凌),” study co - author Russell Viner said in a statement. Researchers found that social media may harm girls' mental health. However, for boys, the influence on their mental health seems to be due to other reasons, so further research is needed.
In 2014 and 2015, researchers asked about the teens' psychological sufferings and their personal happiness. The researchers found that, in both sexes, very frequent social media use was connected with greater psychological sufferings. The effect was especially clear among girls. The more often they checked social media, the greater their psychological sufferings would be.
Bob Patton, a psychologist from the University of Surrey, said the research showed strategies focusing only on reducing social media use as a tool to improve mental health might not help. “Building strategies to increase resilience (适应力) to cyber - bullying and improve the sleep and exercise behaviors may help reduce both physical and psychological harm,” Patton, who was not involved in the research, said in a statement. “If teenagers can change their unhealthy lifestyle and cyber - bullying can be reduced, the positive effects of social media use can be supported,” he added.
1. What do we know about the research in Paragraph 2?| A．Over 10, 000 teenagers took part in the research |
| B．It took researchers two years to do the research |
| C．Researchers marked how often teenager used social media |
| D．Researchers recorded the total time the children spent online |
| A．Stop | B．Destroy | C．Change | D．Increase |
| A．Social media use does more harm to girls |
| B．Girls use social media more frequently than boys |
| C．The frequent users of social media usually have mental problems |
| D．Boys' psychological sufferings mainly come from cyber - bullying |
| A．Cyber - bullying is hard to deal with |
| B．Parents should protect teenagers from hot Social media |
| C．Good online habits help teenagers benefit from social media |
| D．People should pay more attention to face - to - face communication |
| A．The harmful effects of social media use |
| B．The reasons for reducing social media use |
| C．The ways to reduce harm of social media use |
| D．The importance of knowing about cyber - bullying |
