The Huffington Post – Tyler Kingkade
“College freshmen are spending less time with friends than ever, a survey released Thursday shows, a shift that experts say may reflect declining mental health. The University of California, Los Angeles, Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s annual survey shows that incoming students in 2014 reported the lowest level of self-rated emotional health since the survey began 49 years ago…The survey shows freshmen concerned about financial security and feeling depressed and overwhelmed…”One of the things we have seen is there is an association of depression and time spent on social media,” said Dr. Victor Schwartz, a psychiatrist and medical director at The Jed Foundation.”(more)