Springtide Research Institute was recently featured in an article by Newsweek. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.

Thirteen-year-olds are considered the oldest of “Generation Alpha.” Springtide Research Institute surveyed 1,112 of them with the permission of their parents for one week during January.

“In order to know, understand and accompany young people—Gen Alpha—as they move into their teenage years and closer to adulthood, we have to ask and listen more than guess and assume,” Springtide executive editor Tricia Bruce told Newsweek.

This group of young people mostly admit that they are addicted to their phones, with 42 percent agreeing or strongly agreeing that they are and 36 percent saying that they are not. Ninety-seven percent have access to a smartphone.

But the study indicates also that 13-year-olds who use their phones more than others only slightly more often say that they are depressed, anxious or lonely, thus the researchers don’t conclude that phone use has much to do with mental health.

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