Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
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Re: Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
#2I strongly suspect that, like the Southampton Six, what we're looking at here is a faster unmasking of underlying neurodevelopmental issues, and not causation.
Re: Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
#3Should link to the paper: 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
Re: Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
#4Its 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.