ArticleScientific reports2025
A harsher reality for adolescents with depression on social media.
Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Real-time experience: A systematic review of ecological momentary assessments of everyday functioning in major depressive disorder.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2026Pooled it
- Recreational screen use and internalizing problems from preadolescence to young adulthood in a longitudinal twin cohort with co-twin comparison.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Online Social Support - an Adjunct or Substitute for Traditional Social Support: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- 'Digital Insight and Agency Scale' (DIAS): A Novel Tool to Illuminate Young People's Agency in Mitigating the Negative Impact of Digital Activities on Their Mental Health.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2026Article
- Physical activity and depressive symptoms among Chinese university students: Grit as a mediator.PloS one · 2026Article
- Augmented reality-based fine arts education experiences and adolescents' perceived reduction in depressive symptoms: a self-report study of associations with psychological resilience, rumination, and emotional regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Recreational Screen Use and Internalizing Problems from Preadolescence to Young Adulthood: A population-based Cohort and Co-Twin Control Study.Research square · 2025Article
- Social Media Activities With Different Content Characteristics and Adolescent Mental Health: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Social media use is often highlighted as an important cause of the recent rise in depression among adolescents. However, this perspective overlooks a crucial reverse causality, namely that levels of depression might also shape adolescents' social media use. In a diary study among 479 adolescents (M
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