Person-Specific Analyses of Smartphone Use and Mental Health: Intensive Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contrary to popular concerns about the harmful effects of media use on mental health, research on this relationship is ambiguous, stalling advances in theory, interventions, and policy. Scientific explorations of the relationship between media and mental health have mostly been found null or have small associations, with the results often blamed on the use of cross-sectional study designs or imprecise measures of media use and mental health.

Objective

This exploratory empirical demonstration aims to answer whether mental health effects are associated with media use experiences by (1) redirecting research investments to granular and intensive longitudinal recordings of digital experiences to build models of media use and mental health for single individuals over th

SUBMITTER: Cerit M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11904378 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature