{"id":41128,"date":"2015-09-15T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massarate.ma\/?p=41128"},"modified":"2015-09-15T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:54:54","slug":"fifth-of-secondary-school-pupils-wake-almost-every-night-to-use-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.massarate.ma\/fifth-of-secondary-school-pupils-wake-almost-every-night-to-use-social-media.html","title":{"rendered":"Fifth of secondary school pupils ‘wake almost every night to use social media’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Concerns about young people\u2019s dependence on social media and its impact on their wellbeing appear set to grow after a study found that one in five children wake up almost every night to either read or post messages.<\/p>\n
The research, carried out among secondary school children across Wales and published on Tuesday, surveyed more than 400 pupils in year 8 (aged 12 and 13) and 400 in year 10 (aged 14 and 15) to find out about their bedtime and sleeping patterns.<\/p>\n
Asked how often they wake at night to use social media, 22% of year 8 pupils, and 23% of year 10s, said \u201calmost always\u201d. A further 14% of the younger group and 15% of the older said they did so at least once a week.<\/p>\n
The report also looked at bedtimes and found that significant numbers were going to bed at midnight or later on school nights. While 17% of year 8s and 28% of year 10s said they went to bed at midnight or later, 6% of the younger group and 8% of the older claimed to go to bed after 1am.<\/p>\n
Yet according to the research, the disruption caused by using social media at night may have more of an impact on fatigue the next day than the number of hours spent in bed.<\/p>\n
Those surveyed were asked how often they felt tired at school. More than half of those who reported \u201calmost always\u201d waking to use social media said they \u201calmost always\u201d go to school feeling tired.<\/p>\n
This was much higher than the overall percentage of respondents saying they \u201calmost always\u201d feel tired at school, which was 32% among year 8 pupils and 39% among year 10s.<\/p>\n