{"id":4651,"date":"2019-05-27T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2019-05-20T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:10:19","slug":"more-contradictions-in-the-adolescent-sleep-technology-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/more-contradictions-in-the-adolescent-sleep-technology-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"More Contradictions in the Adolescent Sleep\/Technology Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month ago, I described<\/a> an impressively large study (17,000+ adolescents) looking at the effects of technology on adolescent sleep and well being.<\/p>\n

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As I summed it up in the title of that post: “Surprise! Screen time (even before bed) doesn’t harm adolescents.”<\/p>\n

Today, I’m linking to another large study<\/a> (6600+ adolescents) showing … just the opposite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The main findings for this study was that late-night technology use — especially once the room lights were off — predicted a lower “health-related quality of life” for adolescents.<\/p>\n

At this point, I’m frankly flummoxed. I just don’t know how to sort out the contradictory research findings in this field.<\/p>\n

For the time being, to preserve sanity, I’d keep these main points in mind:<\/p>\n

First<\/strong>: don’t panic. The media LOVE to hype stories about this and that terrible result of technology. Most research I see doesn’t bear that out.<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>: don’t focus on averages<\/em>. Focuses on the child<\/em>, or the children<\/em>, in front of you.<\/p>\n

Is your teen not getting enough sleep? Try fixing that problem by limiting screen time. If she is getting enough sleep, no need to worry!<\/p>\n

Is your student body managing their iPhones well? If yes, it’s all good! If no, then you can develop a policy to make things better.<\/p>\n

Until we get clearer and more consistent research findings, I think we should respond — calmly — to the children right in front of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research, contradicting prior research, shows that pre-bedtime screen use does lower adolescent quality of life. We can managing this contradiction best by focusing on the children right in front of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,10,29],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-adolescence","tag-sleep","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}