Using phone before sleep not harmful for teens, study finds

The research inspected more than 17,000 teenagers and found that adolescents' total screen time per day had diminutive impact on their psychological health

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The habit of checking smart-phones, streaming videos online or even playing games before going to sleep might not be harmful, as the study published in Psychological Science journal falsified the previous studies which advocated for less use of smart phones before bedtime by the youths.

The research inspected more than 17,000 teenagers and found that adolescents' total screen time per day had diminutive impact on their psychological health, both on weekends and weekdays.

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Falsifying the 2 hour, 1 hour and 30 minutes theory before bedtime Professor Andrew Przybylski, at the University of Oxford said, "We found little clear-cut evidence that screen time decreases adolescent well-being, even if the use of digital technology occurs directly before bedtime."

For the study of Psychological Science journal the team examined information from Ireland, the US, and the UK and used a precise methodology to collect how much time a juvenile spends on screens per day, including both self-reported measures and time-use diaries.


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