Overview
- About 98% of surveyed educators say social media harms students’ emotional well‑being, highlighting unrealistic beauty standards (33.2%), violent content (27.3%) and pornography as especially damaging.
- A majority rates overall student mental health as only “regular” (56%), with 13% described as bad or very bad, and roughly nine in ten teachers identify anxiety as the most frequent classroom problem.
- Teachers cite family dynamics as key risks alongside online influences, pointing to permissive or authoritarian parenting and recent separations as prominent drivers of student distress.
- School capacity is constrained by lack of time (79.8%) and insufficient training (60.3%), and about three in ten teachers do not feel prepared to identify mental‑health problems.
- Educators recommend critical media education, more offline activities and limits on device use during school hours, while noting their own burnout—stress, low motivation and irritability—reduces their ability to detect student needs.