“Inevitably there is the chicken and egg question, as to whether more dissatisfied children, who to begin with are less pleased with their body shape and have fewer friends then spend more time on social media. Their findings are published on Friday in EClinicalMedicine, a journal published by the Lancet. The authors say the sleep disruption is due to young people staying up late to use social media and being woken up by alerts coming in to their phones beside their beds. Half of depressed girls and a quarter of depressed boys said that they suffer from disrupted sleep “most of the time”. While just 5.4% of girls and 2.7% of boys overall said they slept for seven hours or less, 48.4% of girls with low mood and 19.8% of such boys said the same. Social media is also closely associated with poor sleeping habits, especially among 14-year-olds showing clinical signs of depression. That pattern of stark gender differences was repeated when young people were quizzed about other key aspects of their feelings and behaviour, Kelly’s team found.
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