{"id":1717619,"date":"2022-10-31T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717619"},"modified":"2022-10-31T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T11:18:57","slug":"study-outside-of-school-americas-teens-average-70-hours-per-week-glued-to-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-outside-of-school-americas-teens-average-70-hours-per-week-glued-to-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Outside Of School, America\u2019s Teens Average 70 Hours Per Week Glued To Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-outside-of-school-americas-teens-average-70-hours-per-week-glued-to-screens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717619&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Americans ages 11 to 18 play online for an average of 10 hours per day, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/reports\/teens-and-tech\/2022\/executive-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a study<\/a> out today by a research team that includes psychologist Jean Twenge, author of \u201ciGen\u201d and \u201cGeneration Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers surveyed 1,600 Americans ages 11 to 18 in May 2022. On average, the study participants reported using digital media an average of 10 hours and four minutes <em>per day<\/em>, on such entertainment activities as social media, video chat, texting, shopping, and gaming.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a total of <em>70 hours per week <\/em>spent online, approximately double the average time spent in school. If teens were suddenly banned from screen time, they could use the time freed from solely that to instead hold down both a full-time <em>and<\/em> a part-time job. Some of this average may include multitasking, such as texting while scrolling Instagram, the study said, but this total of 70 hours per week spent on screens also did <em>not<\/em> include time spent watching TV.<\/p>\n<p> Low-Class Behavior Rampant in Middle Class <\/p>\n<p>The researchers say their Institute for Family Studies and Wheatley Institute study is the first to examine the effects of family structure on young people\u2019s screen time. They found that teens living with their own biological and married parents still spent an astonishing amount of time on screens, at an average of nine hours per day. Still, that was nearly two hours fewer per day, on average, than children living without a biological parent, who spent an average of 11 hours per day online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe adolescents most likely to be depressed, lonely, and dissatisfied with life are heavy digital media users in stepparent, single-parent, or other non-intact families,\u201d write study authors Twenge, Wendy Wang, Jenet Erickson, and Brad Wilcox. \u201cThe link between excessive technology use and poor mental health is larger for youth in non-intact families compared to those in intact families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, according to this study\u2019s findings, children in intact families spend an average of 63 hours per week amusing themselves online, while children in broken families spend an average of 77 hours per week amusing themselves online. The study discovered \u201cespecially large differences by family structure in youth time spent on gaming and texting. For example, youth in stepfamilies report spending about 50 minutes a day more texting than youth in intact families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other studies on children\u2019s screen use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsensemedia.org\/research\/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reinforce<\/a> this finding \u2014 that America\u2019s young people are wasting almost all of their waking free time on entertainment instead of personal growth or service to others. As this IFS\/Wheatley study points out, this shift has happened extremely quickly, and it\u2019s not all because of the 2020-2022 Covid lockdowns that also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/no-surprise-were-not-going-to-remedy-massive-education-loss-from-the-pandemic-sorry-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a> American children\u2019s development. Between 2009 and 2017, \u201cthe time high school students spent online doubled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study points out that high screen time for adolescents is correlated with depression, loneliness, lack of sleep, and negative body image. It does not mention the opportunity cost of diverting young people\u2019s free time to entertainment consumption instead of personal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s young people are wasting almost all of their waking free time on entertainment instead of personal development or service to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":1717622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}