ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Risk Factors for Excessive Social Media Use Differ from Those of Gambling and Gaming in Finnish Youth.
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- Exploration of Cannabis Use with Excessive Social Media Use Among U.S. College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Substance use in Spanish adolescent gamblers before and after the COVID-19 pandemic state of alarm: a population-based study.Scientific reports · 2025Observational
- Video gaming and cannabis use: A scoping review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Burden of gaming disorder among adolescents: A systemic review and meta-analysis.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2025Review
- Adolescents' online communication and well-being: Findings from the 2018 health behavior in school-aged children (HBSC) study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeAdolescents' excessive social media use has characteristics similar to other addictive behaviours. This study aims to explore whether the same risk factors are associated with excessive social media use as with excessive gaming and gambling among Finnish adolescents.
methodsMultinomial logistic regression analyses were carried out using the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs data, collected from Finnish adolescents aged 15-16 in 2019 (
resultsExcessive use of social media was more common among girls (reported by 46% of respondents) than boys of the same age (28%), whereas boys reported both excessive gaming (23%) and gambling (6%) more often than girls (4% and 1%, respectively). All differences between genders were statistically significant (
conclusionsAdolescent girls are at greater risk of excessive social media use than boys, while boys are at greater risk of excessive gaming and gambling. The associations with known risk factors are somewhat different for excessive use of social media as compared to excessive gambling and gaming and should be acknowledged when developing preventive measures for adolescents.
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