The study itself notes that gender differences between boys and girls seem robust, with consistently worse outcomes for girls, and this points to social media

The study itself notes that gender differences between boys and girls seem robust, with consistently worse outcomes for girls, and this points to social media use being the more fundamental problematic issue: > "...differences in relation to mental health and digital media use have been reported by others, and may be due to activities carried out online (e.g. boys do more gaming, girls do more social media)..." (pdf) https://sapienlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Sapien-Labs-Age-of-First-Smartphone-and-Mental-Wellbeing-Outcomes.pdf https://sapienlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Sapien-Lab...