Hirshberg Matthew J, Heyroth Mackenzie, Davidson Richard J
Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2025 Jul 29. doi: 10.1111/nyas.15414.
Digital technologies (DTs) have become ubiquitous. Adolescents are avid users of DTs. As access to and use of DTs has increased among adolescents, daily life and adolescent social interaction patterns have shifted in profound ways. Although the causal relationship between DT use and adolescent wellbeing is not clear, it is clear that the economy driving DT innovation is not designed to promote adolescent wellbeing. Yet, DTs possess characteristics that make them promising avenues for wellbeing promotion because of their accessibility, ability to scale up, and the potential for personalization. In this essay, we propose that strengthening adolescent wellbeing skills through DT interventions may provide the necessary conditions for adaptive adolescent DT use at a public health scale, leading to improved adolescent wellbeing.
数字技术（DTs）已无处不在。青少年是数字技术的狂热使用者。随着青少年对数字技术的接触和使用增加，日常生活和青少年社交互动模式发生了深刻变化。虽然数字技术使用与青少年幸福感之间的因果关系尚不清楚，但很明显，推动数字技术创新的经济模式并非旨在促进青少年的幸福感。然而，数字技术具有一些特性，由于其可及性、扩大规模的能力以及个性化潜力，使其成为促进幸福感的有前景途径。在本文中，我们提出通过数字技术干预加强青少年的幸福技能，可能为在公共卫生层面上青少年适应性地使用数字技术提供必要条件，从而改善青少年的幸福感。
