![]() “That’s a total of about six hours per day on just three digital media activities during their leisure time.” “In the mid-2010s, the average American 12th-grader reported spending approximately two hours a day texting, just over two hours a day on the internet - which included gaming - and just under two hours a day on social media,” said Twenge. Usage rates and increases were fairly uniform across gender, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, according to Twenge. It also increased 75 percent for 10th graders and 68 percent for eighth-graders. Among 12th-graders, internet use during leisure time doubled from one to two hours per day during that period. Use of digital media increased substantially from 2006 to 2016. While the study started with only 12th-graders in the 1970s, eighth- and 10th-graders were added in 1991. They looked at survey results from 1976 to 2016, representing more than 1 million teenagers. Twenge and her colleagues analyzed data from Monitoring the Future, an ongoing study that surveys a nationally representative sample of approximately 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students annually. The research was published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture ®. “Time on digital media has displaced time once spent enjoying a book or watching TV.” Twenge, PhD, author of the book iGen and professor of psychology at San Diego State University. “Compared with previous generations, teens in the 2010s spent more time online and less time with traditional media, such as books, magazines and television,” said lead author Jean M. teens report reading a book, magazine or newspaper daily for pleasure, while more than 80 percent say they use social media every day, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. In recent years, less than 20 percent of U.S. ![]() WASHINGTON - If you can’t remember the last time you saw a teenager reading a book, newspaper or magazine, you’re not alone.
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