Potato chips or heroin? The debate on social media and mental health
Potato chips or heroin? The debate on social media and mental health
- August 4, 2024
- Candice L. Odgers, CPIP and social ecology, Big Think, August 4, 2024
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In a 2020 review of the research literature, Candice Odgers and Michaeline Jensen, psychologists at the UC Irvine and UNC Greensboro, respectively, found that the research was ultimately mixed but that the most rigorous, pre-registered studies report “small associations between the amount of daily digital technology usage and adolescents’ well-being that do not offer a way of distinguishing cause from effect.”
For the full story, please visit https://bigthink.com/the-present/debate-on-social-media-and-mental-health/.
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