Counteracting the negative effects of social media overuse on adolescent mental health: A comprehensive study

Abbey Cambridge College, Cambridge, CB2 8EB, UK

^* Corresponding author: jiaofeng@ldy.edu.rs

Abstract

In this digital age, more and more teens are now using social media. The impact of social media on adolescent mental health is one of the current topics of research. Researchers have found the progress of social media for adolescents, however, a series of problems of passive socialization still exists research lacks a unified explanation. The topic of this paper is adolescent mental health and the impact of social media. The research methodology of this paper is as follows: summarizing and analyzing the literature on the internet and collating the data from the different literature websites and putting it into this article. Many adolescents are influenced by these social media and thus suffer from mental illness. Finally, this paper provides a comprehensive review of existing research, points out the shortcomings of the current stage of research, and suggests possible future research directions and trends. This paper is intended to serve as a reference for researchers in the field of the impact of social media on adolescents and to provide some ideas and suggestions for subsequent research.