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Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
- polotics 3mo agoI strongly suspect that, like the Southampton Six, what we're looking at here is a faster unmasking of underlying neurodevelopmental issues, and not causation.
- loughnane 3mo agoShould link to the paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2851740?guestAccessKey=9298d7c8-e27e-415f-a31e-4e4345a6efcc https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... > FINDINGS: In this cohort study of 11 286 youth participants, within-person elevations in self-reported Problematic Social Media Use behaviors were associated with higher parent-reported ADHD symptoms the following year during mid-adolescence. These within-person associations differed by sex and were significant among males but not females
- newsomix9xl 3mo agoIts plausible. This would be impulsive behavior. Since ADHD pre existed social media it seems likely that this is not a cause. It might make things worse. Spending time looking for prevention/treatment rather than correlations might be more useful.