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ArticleBehavior genetics2025

The Association Between Frequency of Social Media Use, Wellbeing, and Depressive Symptoms: Disentangling Genetic and Environmental Factors.

Selim Sametoğlu, Dirk H M Pelt, Meike Bartels

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Article in Behavior genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Selim SametoğluMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. selim.sametoglu@mpi.nl.
Dirk H M PeltVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Meike BartelsVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Abstract

Meta-analyses report small to moderate effect sizes or inconsistent associations (usually around r = -0.10) between wellbeing (WB) and social media use (SMU) and between anxious-depressive symptoms (ADS) and SMU (also around r = 0.10). This study employs the classical twin design, utilizing data from 6492 individuals from the Netherlands Twin Register, including 3369 MZ twins (893 complete twin pairs, 1583 incomplete twin pairs) and 3123 DZ twins (445 complete, 2233 incomplete) to provide insights into the sources of overlap between WB/ADS and SMU. Both hedonic and eudaimonic WB scales were used. SMU was measured by (1) the time spent on different social media platforms (SMU

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DepressionSocial MediaAdolescentAdultAnxietyFemaleGene-Environment InteractionHumansMaleMiddle AgedNetherlandsPhenotypeRegistriesTwins, DizygoticTwins, MonozygoticClassical twin designGenetically informed designsSocial media useWellbeing

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PMID40542957
PMCPMC12325487

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