Sonja Lyubomirsky || The How of Happiness
The Psychology Podcast
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Are Smartphone Use and Social Media Use Related to Depression?
There's a debate you know so again my take on the debate is that smartphone use but particular social media use does seem to be negatively associated with well-being, but it's mostly true for girls and for young girls. So especially in girls and especially in teen and tween girls that's where you kind of see the negative correlations other researchers show or try to argue that the correlations are really tiny. Okay so that sort of might take on the literature. Now those are all correlations right so it could be that you know if you're depressed to begin with you're going to use social media more. But there's mixed evidence on that so really we need to do experimental research so there's
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