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    Schlafentzug bei Teenagern nimmt zu, obwohl Bildschirmzeit nicht die Hauptursache ist

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    1. sf_sf_sf on

      I’d be really interested in seeing how homework load has affected this. I see high schoolers with 5-6 week extra curriculars and an immense amount of homework.  

    2. TeeTimeAllTheTime on

      Could maybe be related to the whole everything is pretty horrible job market wise, politically, environmentally, and also just non stop warfare that puts everything at risk. I am over 40 and still feel on the younger side and don’t know how we will make it, the kids today are facing an unfair amount of uncertainty

    3. ry1701 on

      I’m going to say it’s probably related more to diet and food quality.

      As I get older, it’s absolutely bonkers what a little magnesium, or b vitamins can do, especially if you have MTHFR or other processing issues with some vitamins and minerals.

    4. Chop1n on

      Teens are being sent to school at 7am, which for most of the year is actually 6am by solar time–their bodies cannot handle it. They are not wired to wake up that early and fall asleep early enough to wake up that early. A handful of school districts recognize this and have starts at 9 or even 9:30, but this problem remains an epidemic in most of the developed world.

    5. DoktorSigma on

      I blame the untold horror of LED lights. Hyper-bright, turning the night into day, and usually super-white, sometimes slightly bluish.

      After I gave up on fashion / social standards and started to use sunglasses at night, seeing everything in a half-light tinged in amber after 6pm, I have been sleeping like a baby.

      By the way, I don’t think it’s just teens, but unfortunately it seems that the study didn’t compare to other age brackets, as far as I checked.

    6. coconutpiecrust on

      >So what’s actually driving it? Researchers stop short of a definitive answer, but point to likely suspects: early school start times, overwhelming extracurricular demands, and declining parental oversight.

      I am sorry, what are the kids doing then, if not sit on their phones instead of sleeping? Are they just not sleeping and staring at the ceiling, being stressed at life? 

      My observations, being around a lot of teens, is that screen time is definitely to blame. Their whole lives revolve around the addiction rectangle and they need to constantly stay connected to each other via it, which creates a lot of dysregulation and anxiety. 

    7. Successful-Bar-8173 on

      This is for American teenagers. It would be interesting to know if this is replicated worldwide.

    8. EscapeFacebook on

      Most kids sit inside all day on tablets and not exerting themselves. I just saw a article today that said gen Z’s favorite past time is bed rotting…. well, if you spend all day in bed, you’re going to have problems sleeping at night.

    9. DivineBladeOfSilver on

      My personal opinion based on all the available scientific info is screen time isn’t inherently the problem depending on how you use it. If you single task focus on one relaxing thing and make it mega dim it can actually help some fall and stay asleep (also depends on the person). But yeah if you’re constantly taking in stressful and over stimulating content it’s a problem. Most teens taking in way more info they should never have access yet to stressing them out than ever before and it’s a parenting and society failure more than anything. Imagine being told day after day college is useless, you have to work manual labor now to make money for life in some unfulfilling dead end job while corporations and the 1% hoard everything, the environment is dying, everyone is corrupt and adults allow it, the US is constantly bombing and attacking places and having trade wars, people fighting online 24/7, and so much more. Yeah at their age I wouldn’t sleep either. I already struggled with normal teenage drama stressing me out at their age

    10. RabidSkwerl on

      One thing I’m sure doesn’t help is school starts too damn early. I remember half the school year we’d be starting first period before the sun even came up

    11. DFWPunk on

      Issues with teen sleep deprivation have been known since well before screens were even an issue. Science showed long ago that they’re being sent to school far too early and not being allowed enough time to sleep.

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