Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media

  • Amy Orben,
  • Andrew K. Przybylski,
  • Sarah-Jayne Blakemore,
  • Rogier A. Kievit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29296-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

The relationship between social media use and well-being might change across adolescent development. Here, the authors use cross sectional and longitudinal data to show that distinct developmental windows of sensitivity to social media emerge in adolescence, dependent on age and sex.