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Smartphone use has radical impact on mental health of teens, claims San Diego SU psych professor

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/1920.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500&h=750)</div><p>San Diego State University professor of psychology and author Jean Twenge has claimed that smartphone usage is having a radical impact on both the behavior and mental health of U.S. teenagers.</p>

<p>The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health [

…] Rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011. It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones.</p>
<p>Far from being the usual generalized complaint about teens spending too much time staring at their screens, Dr Twenge has plenty of hard data to support her contentions – made in The Atlantic, the magazine in which Laurene Powell Jobs recently <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/28/laurene-powell-jobs-the-atlantic-quartz-qz-com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bought a majority stake[/url] …</p>
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