Among high school students used to short-form content, 3 out of 10 say "It's hard to read long texts for more than 10 minutes"

[Financial News] About 3 out of 10 high school students find it difficult to read long texts for more than 10 minutes.
On the 18th, Jinhaksa, a college admissions information provider, announced that it conducted an online survey on study concentration and short-form viewing habits among 3,525 high school students nationwide from the 2nd to the 11th of last month.
When asked, "Have you often felt that it is hard to concentrate on reading texts that require long reading for more than 10 minutes?" 22.2% of respondents answered "Yes," while 8.4% responded "Strongly yes."
In contrast, 41.0% of respondents answered "No" (26.0%) or "Not at all" (15.0%).
These results suggest that about 3 out of 10 high school students struggle to read and analyze long texts such as College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) passages or textbooks.

Jinhaksa interpreted the findings as indicating a potential source of academic burden for high school students. The company also assessed that the decline in students' concentration is closely related to their habitual viewing of short-form videos.
In this survey, 57.9% of students said they "habitually open short-form apps (such as YouTube Shorts and Reels) without any particular purpose."
Looking at the detailed figures, 35.8% answered "Yes" and 22.1% said "Strongly yes." On the other hand, only 17.1% responded "Not at all" (4.6%) or "No" (12.5%).
When asked whether they can control the amount of time they spend watching short-form videos, 78.4% of respondents said they "end up watching longer than they intended."
Among them, 51.6% answered, "I can generally control it, but sometimes it goes on for too long," 20.1% said, "It often goes on too long even when I want to stop," and 6.8% responded, "It is hard to control." Only 20.1% said, "I can stop whenever I want."
Woo Yeon-cheol, Director of the Jinhaksa Admissions Strategy Research Institute, pointed out, "As media use centered on short-form content increases, the brain is becoming more and more accustomed only to short and intense stimuli."
He went on to stress, "For high school students to regain their ability to concentrate on studying, it is important to physically keep smartphones away at least during study time and to train themselves to read long texts such as textbooks and newspaper articles all the way to the end."

newssu@fnnews.com Kim Su-yeon Reporter