Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among United States Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Depression is increasingly common among US adolescents; the extent to which social media exposure contributes to this increase remains controversial.

Methods

We used Monitoring the Future data from 8th and 10th grade students (n = 74,472), 2009-2017, to assess the relationship between daily social media use and depressive symptoms. Self-reported depressive symptom score (range: 4-20) was assessed continuously using a log-transformed outcome and at varying cut scores with logistic regression analyses. First, these outcomes were examined overall, comparing adolescents using social media daily to adolescents who were not. We then estimated predicted depressive symptom scores using 26 predictors in order to establish underlying depression risk. We partitioned students in

SUBMITTER: Kreski N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7876159 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature