Doomscrolling linked to existential anxiety, distrust, suspicion and despair, study finds

One expert compared doomscrolling to being in a room where people are constantly yelling at you, and says media needs to rethink news

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Does scrolling your phone give you an existential crisis? That’s the question a team of international experts have sought to answer in a study published in the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior Reports.

Researchers surveyed 800 university students from the US and Iran and found that doomscrolling – or spending excessive time consuming negative news – was linked to feelings of existential anxiety, distrust and suspicion of others, and despair.

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