Children using social media to feel better in Denmark 2018, by age and gender

In 2018, 42 percent of girls at 13 years of age used social media as a means to forget negative emotions, which was an increase of more than ten percent when compared to 11-year-old girls. For the Danish boys, this tendency declined with age. While 27 percent of the boys in the youngest age group had this problem, this was the case for 24 percent of the boys in the oldest age group. Overall, girls took more refuge in social media when experiencing negative emotions.

于2018年，13岁年龄段的女孩中有42%将社交媒体作为一种忘记负面情绪的手段，与11岁的女孩相比，这一比例增长了超过十个百分点。对于丹麦的男孩而言，这种趋势随着年龄的增长而降低。在年龄最小的群体中，27%的男孩存在这一问题，而在年龄最大的群体中，这一比例下降至24%。总体而言，女孩在遭遇负面情绪时更倾向于寻求社交媒体的庇护。