Psychologist Jean Twenge discusses all the evidence that Instagram and TikTok are making kids miserable
: “It’s become common wisdom that too much time spent on smartphones, et cetera, is responsible for a recent spike in anxiety and depression. But a growing number of academic researchers have produced studies suggesting that common wisdom is wrong.”
But for the sake of argument, let’s set aside whatever I did. Two other research groups also concluded that the same datasets Orben and Przybylski used showed significant links between social-media use and depression. Yvonne Kelly and her colleagues had aas Orben and Przybylski’s, showing that girls who spent five or more hours a day on social media were three times as likely to fit clinical criteria for depression as nonusers of social media.
The paper I just mentioned looked at the “social media versus gaming” question. And yes, the links to depression are stronger for social media. That’s true even if you look at boys and girls separately, which I know sounds like a detail, but it’s not. That’s really, really important in this area of research, because girls spend more time on social media, boys spend more time on gaming, and there’s a significant sex difference in depression.
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