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Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health: Findings From the UK Millennium Cohort Study
- Source :
- EClinicalMedicine, EClinicalMedicine, Vol 6, Iss, Pp 59-68 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Background: Evidence suggests social media use is associated with mental health in young people but underlying processes are not well understood. This paper i) assesses whether social media use is associated with adolescents' depressive symptoms, and ii) investigates multiple potential explanatory pathways via online harassment, sleep, self-esteem and body image. Methods: We used population based data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study on 10,904 14 year olds. Multivariate regression and path models were used to examine associations between social media use and depressive symptoms. Findings: The magnitude of association between social media use and depressive symptoms was larger for girls than for boys. Compared with 1–3 h of daily use: 3 to
- Subjects :
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Developmental psychology
Social media
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Self-esteem
Medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
030212 general & internal medicine
Association (psychology)
Online harassment
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lcsh:R5-920
business.industry
05 social sciences
General Medicine
Mental health
Adolescence
3. Good health
Social research
Body image
Millennium Cohort Study (United States)
Population based data
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Sleep
business
Research Paper
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 25895370
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- EClinicalMedicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c7dbf05f43b21364c645fb506695fd35