The dangerousness of screens would be understated by young French people.
According to an Ipsos / Macif 2022 barometer, published on Tuesday, nearly one in two young people between the ages of 16 and 30 say they spend more than six hours a day in front of interactive screens.
A worrying situation after two years of health crisis.
Moreover, 70% of the 3,500 young people questioned said they
had "lost control at least once in the past 12 months (compared to 61% last year, an increase of 9 points)
".
63% of them have lost track of time and 48% have difficulty falling asleep.
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But the consequences can be even more alarming.
Telephone, computer, tablet... difficult for young people to do without screens, to the point of falling into addiction.
If we compare with other substances, such as alcohol, drugs and tobacco, "
it is on this consumption that the proportion of young people who declared having already lost control has increased the most
", underlines the Ipsos/Macif study.
More than half of young people surveyed said they lost control at least ten times a year (compared to 45% last year).
Similarly, 84% of young people who spend 6 hours or more in front of screens claim to have experienced
“negative situations”.
Malaise, but also episodes of academic or professional failure and also social isolation have been reported.
A third also claim to have developed vision problems.
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But faced with the risks of addiction linked to technology, young French people would be bad judges.
They only attribute a score of 5.2/10 on the perceived risk associated with interactive screens.
"Even more worrying, only 8% of young people assign them a maximum risk (notes 9 and 10/10)",
specifies the study.
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