ArticlePloS one2017
Personalized Media: A Genetically Informative Investigation of Individual Differences in Online Media Use.
Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Recreational screen use and internalizing problems from preadolescence to young adulthood in a longitudinal twin cohort with co-twin comparison.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Relations Between Social Media Use and Cyberbullying Victimization Across Adolescence: Within-Person Effects in a Birth Cohort.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- The Association Between Frequency of Social Media Use, Wellbeing, and Depressive Symptoms: Disentangling Genetic and Environmental Factors.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- The relationship between autism spectrum disorder and screen time in children: a literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- A Genetically Informed Study of Digital screen time, Video game play, and Impulsivity in Established Adulthood.Computers in human behavior · 2024Article
- The genetics of gaming: A longitudinal twin study.JCPP advances · 2023Article
- Shared Genetic Risk in the Association of Screen Time With Psychiatric Problems in Children.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Gene-environment correlations and genetic confounding underlying the association between media use and mental health.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The genetics of university success.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Online media use has become an increasingly important behavioral domain over the past decade. However, studies into the etiology of individual differences in media use have focused primarily on pathological use. Here, for the first time, we test the genetic influences on online media use in a UK representative sample of 16 year old twins, who were assessed on time spent on educational (N = 2,585 twin pairs) and entertainment websites (N = 2,614 twin pairs), time spent gaming online (N = 2,635 twin pairs), and Facebook use (N = 4,333 twin pairs). Heritability was substantial for all forms of online media use, ranging from 34% for educational sites to 37% for entertainment sites and 39% for gaming. Furthermore, genetics accounted for 24% of the variance in Facebook use. Our results support an active model of the environment, where young people choose their online engagements in line with their genetic propensities.
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