{"id":76781,"date":"2023-06-09T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/?p=76781"},"modified":"2024-04-06T04:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T04:53:30","slug":"more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-76783 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fahmy-danar-sutisna-3857524-scaled-1-600x900.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/>Social media, peer pressure, school, and other responsibilities play a role in the growing mental health crisis in American teenage girls.<\/p>\n<p>As the world begins a return to normalcy following the COVID-19 pandemic, teenage girls are still at the forefront of the ongoing mental health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2023\/p0213-yrbs.html#:~:text=According%20to%20new%20CDC%20data,reported%20over%20the%20past%20decade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a>\u00a0from the CDC, three out of five teenage girls in the United States feel constant sadness or hopelessness.<\/p>\n<p>The study also revealed this is a 60% increase from the past decade, showing rates of emotions related to sadness and depression among young girls continuing to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Viviana Zavala, a 19-year-old radiology technician major, believes social media is a significant contributing factor to the mental health crisis teenage girls are facing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial media, in my opinion, causes a lot of damage to mainly girls,\u201d Zavala said. \u201cSocial media is filtered, photoshopped and only shows what the world wants to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zavala said girls tend to compare themselves to people they see on the internet, which can cause them to look down on themselves and lower their self-confidence.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2022\/08\/10\/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pew Research Center<\/a>, in 2023, over 97% of teenagers said they go on social media and the internet daily, compared to 92% in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Shaira Villanueva, an El Camino student interested in game development, also believes social media and the internet contribute to the mental health decline in teenage girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith social media defining how relationships should be with either yourself or those around you by labeling those actions as the bare minimum, creates a sense of stress and insecurity of how one\u2019s life doesn\u2019t meet the social media standard of perfection,\u201d Villanueva said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the use of social media draws comparisons to other girls, which elicits a response of feeling insecure, as well as feelings of low self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>With social media being one the main contributors to the mental health crisis, becoming a teenager also means the sudden increase of responsibilities they have or are given.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, teenage girls feel as if they run out of methods to manage it all, which can result in sadness and high amounts of stress.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Institute of Stress<\/a>, 64% of Americans aged 15-29 have high levels of stress.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology major Katelyn Estrada, 19, said there are various components, both academic and non-academic that account for high levels of stress in teens, which can result in a decline in their mental states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it be school responsibilities or at home like helping to take care of siblings while also being expected to clean and do other stuff is stressful for teens,\u201d Estrada said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Students seeking mental health treatment are encouraged to visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcamino.edu\/support\/health-safety\/student-health-services\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Camino College Student Health Center<\/a>, which offers various health services to students, including therapy. The office can be\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:EccStudentHealth@elcamino.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">contacted<\/a>\u00a0by phone at 310-660-3643 or after hours at 310-660-3377 for the crisis line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eccunion.com\/news\/2023\/05\/26\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/\">Original Post El Camino College The Union<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/unhappy-asian-teen-girl-looking-at-camera-3857524\/\">Photo by Fahmy Danar Sutisna<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media, peer pressure, school, and other responsibilities play a role in the growing mental health crisis in American teenage girls. As the world begins a return to normalcy following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":76784,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[139,195,15],"tags":[136,137,138,141,593,222,143,145,155,594,147,165,595,596],"class_list":["post-76781","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-blog","category-life-stages","category-mental-health","tag-ais","tag-american-institute-of-stress","tag-anxiety","tag-health","tag-life-stage","tag-life-stages","tag-mental-health","tag-relaxation","tag-research","tag-sad","tag-stress-management","tag-stress-relief","tag-teenage","tag-teens-stress","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis - The American Institute of Stress<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis - The American Institute of Stress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Social media, peer pressure, school, and other responsibilities play a role in the growing mental health crisis in American teenage girls. As the world begins a return to normalcy following [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The American Institute of Stress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-06T04:53:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"379\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/\",\"name\":\"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis - The American Institute of Stress\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-09T13:07:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-06T04:53:30+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":379},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/\",\"name\":\"The American Institute of Stress\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The American Institute of Stress\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AIS-logo-C.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AIS-logo-C.svg\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":432,\"caption\":\"The American Institute of Stress\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis - The American Institute of Stress","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis - The American Institute of Stress","og_description":"Social media, peer pressure, school, and other responsibilities play a role in the growing mental health crisis in American teenage girls. As the world begins a return to normalcy following [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/","og_site_name":"The American Institute of Stress","article_modified_time":"2024-04-06T04:53:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":379,"url":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/","url":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/","name":"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis - The American Institute of Stress","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png","datePublished":"2023-06-09T13:07:34+00:00","dateModified":"2024-04-06T04:53:30+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Research-Roundup-2018-2.png","width":600,"height":379},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/more-than-social-media-teenage-girls-face-mental-health-crisis\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"More than social media: Teenage girls face mental health crisis"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/","name":"The American Institute of Stress","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#organization","name":"The American Institute of Stress","url":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AIS-logo-C.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/AIS-logo-C.svg","width":1440,"height":432,"caption":"The American Institute of Stress"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/76781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}