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Link Between Social Media and Depression Stronger In Teen Girls Than Boys, Study Says (cnn.com)
According to a new study published in the journal EClinicalMedicine, the link between social media use and depressive symptoms in 14-year-olds may be much stronger for girls than boys. CNN reports: Among teens who use social media the most -- more than five hours a day -- the study showed a 50% increase in depressive symptoms among girls versus 35% among boys, when their symptoms were compared with those who use social media for only one to three hours daily. Yet the study, conducted in the UK, showed only an association between social media use and symptoms of depression, which can include feelings of unhappiness, restlessness or loneliness. The findings cannot prove that frequent social media use caused depressive symptoms, or vice versa. The study also described other factors, such as lack of sleep and cyberbullying, that could help explain this association.
For the study, researchers analyzed data on 10,904 14-year-olds who were born between 2000 and 2002 in the United Kingdom. The data, which came from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, included information from questionnaires on the teens' depressive symptoms and social media use. Depressive symptoms were recorded as scores, and the researchers looked at which teens had high or low scores. They found that on average, girls had higher depressive symptom scores compared with boys. The researchers also found that girls reported more social media use than boys; 43.1% of girls said they used social media for three or more hours per day, versus 21.9% of boys. The data showed that for teens using social media for three to five hours, 26% of girls and 21% of boys had depressive symptom scores higher than those who used social media for only about one to three hours a day. As for the gender gap, Yvonne Kelly, first author of the study and professor of epidemiology and public health, believes it has to do with "the types of things that girls and boys do online."
"In the UK, girls tend to more likely use things like Snapchat or Instagram, which is more based around physical appearance, taking photographs and commenting on those photographs," she said. "I think it has to do with the nature of use."
For the study, researchers analyzed data on 10,904 14-year-olds who were born between 2000 and 2002 in the United Kingdom. The data, which came from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, included information from questionnaires on the teens' depressive symptoms and social media use. Depressive symptoms were recorded as scores, and the researchers looked at which teens had high or low scores. They found that on average, girls had higher depressive symptom scores compared with boys. The researchers also found that girls reported more social media use than boys; 43.1% of girls said they used social media for three or more hours per day, versus 21.9% of boys. The data showed that for teens using social media for three to five hours, 26% of girls and 21% of boys had depressive symptom scores higher than those who used social media for only about one to three hours a day. As for the gender gap, Yvonne Kelly, first author of the study and professor of epidemiology and public health, believes it has to do with "the types of things that girls and boys do online."
"In the UK, girls tend to more likely use things like Snapchat or Instagram, which is more based around physical appearance, taking photographs and commenting on those photographs," she said. "I think it has to do with the nature of use."
Females are more emotional then males. We've known this for thousands of years. Cavemen understood this. Was a clinical study really necessary?
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Well, that maybe, and the fact they might never be as pretty as the porn stars the sorry excuses for men are wanking to. If they saw how worthless their ideal man actually is they might get their feet back under them and move on with a positive life. The best way to find a solid person is to be one.
females show more emotion then men, they don't necessarily _have_ more emotion. This means men have to keep it bottled up ("Stiff Upper lip and all that rot!") until they snap.
You get what you measure, and you get what you _can_ measure. It's hard to measure emotional responses from a person actively trying to hide them. Conversely it's easier to measure those responses from people encouraged to show their emotions.
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Using social media for several hours a day is pathological behavior already by itself.
I mean 1...3 hours/day as "normal" and >5h/day as the group that has a problem is pretty insane.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
This is why girls, especially in that age group, carry their school books across their chests. Either they think their breasts aren't big enough and want to hide them, or they think they're too big and all the boys will be staring at them. (This isn't guesswork; I once asked a woman about it and that's what she told me.)
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Trump is sad when he reads social media as well.
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Best advice ever: don't ever buy kids anything other than a flip phone and set it so it can't send texts
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Does this have any correlation to the metoo movement? Real question, not a snarky comment.
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Why doesn't this rampant condition have a formal name yet?
Social Media Affective Disorder is practically screaming from the womb.
Everything in the fucking world is about this stupid fucking gender gap shit. Is there not a single site I can go to which isn't infected with this crap? If there's a "gender gap" and females are more negatively affected then it's a disaster and something needs to be done. If there's a "gender gap" and males are doing worse then there's no problem at all and maybe even a sign of progress. What a bunch of toxic shit. Let's just do what we can to help HUMANS. Stop dividing everyone, pitting everyone against each other, and generally finding any conceivable way we can to create civil war. Jesus christ people. I've had it.
It's almost as if boys and girls are different.
But the manhating ecucation and media systems tell us that's not true ?!
Can the gender-quota feminazis possibly be ... totally wrong ?!
Women are more social and higher in negative emotions. They rely much more heavily on others for their status and self worth
This has been known for a long time, contemporary society likes to play dumb about it though
I hope you get some help. It's not healthy to be so full of rage.
The link between *anything* and depression is strongest in teenage girls. And oh, in the female to whatever-the-hell transgender crowd, who I admit are at even higher risks of suicide than teenage girls. The boys don't get as depressed if they're not cast out of their age groups for acting male.
Hey moron, the "IN" in "INCEL" stands for "involuntary." So, by definition, nobody ever decides to become "full INCEL."
Not that you care. Smart people who care about things like logical consistency, and what words actually mean, don't write posts like the one you wrote.
I've been assured that gender is merely a social construct. If so, how is there a gender gap?
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Wow! You talked to a woman? Impressive! And that settles any lingering doubt anyone may still have about this. I am just now re-running J. Giles Band's (My Angel Is a) "Centerfold" and the girls there, all playmates, have books held close to the breasts as the strut and splay their saddle shoes down the classrom aisles. Corroboration then? I say, YES! YES! Oh, YESSS! Of what, I don't know, but YES! Oh, YES!!
You like words and their meanings? OK, besides being hideously ugly, every other "reason" you asshats claim forces you be involuntarily celibate is 100% pure choice on your part. A choice is not "involuntary". LERN WERDZ. Stop being an asshole. Get a god damned job. Take some personal responsibility. Make some fucking money. Get a house. Stop being a god damned pussy. You're here whining and playing a victim. That is not manly. You DO NOT get to reap the rewards of being a man until you act like one, cuck. In the meantime, I'll be fuckin all the hos cause they like that money I drop all over the place, brokeass. GIT GUD.
wealthy and smart people limit all access to the new fad of "social media".
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
News at 11. I wish my generation had been more firm and nipped this "digital revolution" nonsense in the bud back in the early '80s. As a teacher I have witnessed in person what those stupid boxes have done to our children. They have ushered in a wretched age of ignorance, dependence, bad manners, insubordination. The social cost in terms of jobs lost and insecurity has been catastrophic. People do not want to accept that technological progress is not true progress. Only social progress is. We pay the consequences for our timidity. If only we could have said "No to computers, no to the internet" back then.
If you are spending five hours a day on social media you are either depressed or have some other psychological condition! What's wrong with hanging around the shopping centre and spitting?!
Who's behind this study? Damore? Stop spreading harmful gender stereotypes! Google is not happy.
If anyone uses social media for 5 hours a day or more regularly, they already are depressed to begin with I'd say. Maybe boys just hide it better? There's a very plausible explanation right there.
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Girls tend to have more options to socialize IRL, and have more of a tendency to take them.
So girls who go online for long periods of time are more likely to be the ones that are having problems IRL that link to depression, compared to boys.
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Link between social media and stupid people is depressing for intelligent people.
Either they think their breasts aren't big enough and want to hide them, or they think they're too big and all the boys will be staring at them. (This isn't guesswork; I once asked a woman about it and that's what she told me.)
And ... they'd likely be right.
Think of it as the algorithm will figure out a way to get you hooked sooner or later
I thought men and women were the same.
That's like soooooo unfair!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
In the old days we didn't have the internet. We had to make our own mental illnesses.
Of course we didn't all them that. You were just a bit tapped, or not right in the head.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
When you hold a stack of books and papers is it really an illogical way to hold them? I recall being scolded by other boys for holding things "like a girl". If what your female friend told you was true, they'd all be carrying books all the time.
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