At the end of 2024, CBOS carried out a survey study dedicated to two young generations: millennial generation, also called Igrek, I generation Z.
Millennials are called people born between 1980 and 1995. Zetki is in turn born in 1995 and later. The study covered adults, so the youngest year was born in 2006.
The study shows that People aged 18–44 most often derive knowledge about events in the country and in the world from internet portals (39 percent). 27 percent As the second source of information, the television, also watched on the Internet, indicated. The third place was won by social media – from there nearly every fifth (18 percent) derives his knowledge about current events.
The negligible percentage of respondents gives the radio (5 percent), press (2 percent) or podcasts (3 %) as the main source of information. 4 percent respondents stated that they did not draw information about the country and the world from any of these sources, and 2 percent. chose the answer “hard to say”.
The authors of the report point out that the choice of the source from which the respondents draw information about the events is varied in relation to the age.
The most popular place to draw information by the youngest (18-24 years) are social media-it is indicated by 39 percent, little less (34 percent) uses internet portals.
In this age group, television watches only 12 percent. respondents. The participation of interest in information provided on television increases with the age of the respondents-among people aged 30-39, the information is drawn almost to every third person (29 %), and in the group of forty-year-olds, 39 percent do so.
In turn, the position of information portals is similar in various age groups – only among the youngest they give way to social media, while in other groups about 40 percent. He declares that information portals are their main source of knowledge about events in the country and in the world.
A few hours a day. Youth and social media
The largest part of the young respondents in both generations (39 percent) believe that he devotes to tracking social media from 1 to 2 hours a day. In turn, 27 percent He spends 2 to 3 hours a day in the media, and 9 percent from 3 to 5 hours. He spends 4 percent more than 5 hours on the Internet. respondents. Less than one fifth of respondents declare that they spend less than an hour a day in the media (19 percent). Only 1 percent He declares that he does not look into social media every day.
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The study shows that there are big differences in the number of time devoted to social media between the generation with and millennials. Younger respondents usually devote from 3 to 5 hours to social media and more than 5 hours. Representatives of the Y generation, in turn, more often than the generation of Z declare that scrolling social media consumes them at most 2 hours a day (66 percent against 41 percent among Zeteks). The authors of the report emphasize that the younger the respondents, the longer the average time with the phone in hand.
Time spent using social media, and mental health
The time spent on social media correlates with the assessment of mental health – among the respondents who misunderstand their mental health 10 percent. He spends more than 5 hours looking through social media. 27 percent people who negatively evaluate their mental welfare use the media at least 3 hours a day, and 41 percent. less than 2 hours.
Young people assessing their mental health well in 61 percent They devote to the media up to 2 hours a day. This means that the longer young people use social media daily, the worse they assess their mental health.
The analysis also shows that publishing hypocritical posts on social media correlates with being unhappy. Almost half of the respondents (49 percent), who believes that she is often unhappy, sometimes shares their smiling photos, although she is currently not in a good mood. And among young people who declare that they are never shared with falsified posts, 21 percent. He believes that he did not feel unhappy last year, 54 percent. of them felt so rare, and 25 percent. often.
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The study “life orientations” was carried out by the method of direct interviews supported by tablets (MOBI-88.7 percent) and internet interviews (CAWI-11.3 percent) in the period from October 11 to November 11, 2024 at the rehearsal of adult residents of Poland aged 18-44 (n = 1573).
