Journal Article

Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction

By Amy Orben, Tobias Dienlin and Andrew K. Przybylski

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume
116
Pages
p. 10
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902058116
ISSN
278424
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Summary

In this study, we used large-scale representative panel data to disentangle the between-person and within-person relations linking adolescent social media use and well-being. We found that social media use is not, in and of itself, a strong predictor of life satisfaction across the adolescent population. Instead, social media effects are nuanced, small at best, reciprocal over time, gender specific, and contingent on analytic methods.

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This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).

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