Insomnia. Commensurate with the normalization of screen time in the bedroom has increased the prevalence of insomnia (defined as difficulty in falling and remaining asleep), amongst children and ...

However, independent of screen time, those who exclusively used social media had lower rates of insomnia (27.6%) compared to the mixed activity group (35.3%) and the non-social media group (37.1%).

Specifically, an hour of in-bed screen time increased insomnia risk by nearly 60 percent, and lowered sleep duration by about a half hour. “We were particularly interested in whether social ...

For the study, researchers analyzed self-reported data from 1001 undergraduate students with an average age of around 20 years old from Oregon State University and Chaminade University. Data included ...

Screen Use Displaces Sleep, Not Wakefulness The results showed that an additional hour of screen time in bed increased insomnia symptoms by 59% and decreased sleep duration by 24 minutes.

Study links screen time to insomnia symptoms and depressive symptoms in adolescents. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 06 / 180604093124.htm.

College students' insomnia linked more strongly with loneliness than screen time. ScienceDaily . Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241204145153.htm ...

For the students in our study, screen time was definitely associated with insomnia symptoms. But loneliness was a better predictor of insomnia." John Sy, graduate student in OSU's School of ...

Loneliness, not screen time, is keeping college students up at night, according to a new study from Oregon State University. Jenny Kane / AP When it comes to sleep, screen time is often demonized.

Being lonely is a bigger hurdle to a good night’s sleep for college students than too much time at a computer or other electronic screen, a new study by Oregon State University suggests.

Screen time is contributing to chronic sleep deprivation in tweens and teens – a pediatric sleep expert explains how critical sleep is to kids’ mental health Published: August 25, 2023 8:27am EDT ...