Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

May 21, 2019

Summary:

In this study, we used large-scale representative panel data to disentangle the between-person and within-person relations linking adolescent social media use and well-being. We found that social media use is not, in and of itself, a strong predictor of life satisfaction across the adolescent population. Instead, social media effects are nuanced, small at best, reciprocal over time, gender specific, and contingent on analytic methods.

Published in

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 116 , p.10 -10

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902058116

ISSN

278424

Subjects

Link

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/04/30/1902058116

Notes

Open Access

This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).

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