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SIO317: Is Instagram Bad for Mental Health? What the Science Says Might Surprise You

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The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Life Satisfaction

In general, very few effects were significant here. Across all domains, only a couple were significant within each gender. So for boys slash men, small effects for satisfaction with school and school work only emerged. Men who used more social media were less satisfied with school than men who used less social media. For girls and women, they found small significant effects in all satisfaction domains, except friends.

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