Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms During Early Adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In 2023, the US Surgeon General issued the Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, identifying critical research gaps that preclude evidence-based guidance given that most studies of social media and mental health have been cross-sectional rather than longitudinal and have focused on young adults or older adolescents rather than on younger adolescents.

Objective

To evaluate longitudinal associations between social media use (time spent on social media) and depressive symptoms across 4 annual waves spanning a 3-year follow-up period from late childhood to early adolescence.

Design, setting, and participants

In this prospective cohort study using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study across 21 study sites from October 2016 to Oc

SUBMITTER: Nagata JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12096259 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature