In North America and Western Europe, young people are much less happy than they were 15 years ago. Over the same period, social media use has greatly increased. Many people blame social media for this decline in happiness, but does this hypothesis stand up to rigorous scientific analysis?
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- Chapter 1: Executive summary: happiness and social media
- Chapter 2: International evidence on happiness and social media
- Chapter 3: Social media is harming adolescents at a scale large enough to cause changes at the population level
- Chapter 4: Translating scientific evidence into effective policies for health and technology requires care
- Chapter 5: Adolescent life satisfaction and social media use: gender differences in an international dataset
- Chapter 6: Social media, wasting time, and product traps
- Chapter 7: Problematic social media use and adolescent wellbeing: the role of family socioeconomic status across 43 countries
- Chapter 8: Internet use, social media, and wellbeing: the role of trust, social connections, and emotional bonds
- Chapter 9: Social media use and well-being in the Middle East and North Africa
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and an independent editorial board.
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