Brief report: Problematic social media use and sleep disturbances are longitudinally associated with depressive symptoms in adolescents
Raudsepp L
Journal of adolescence · 49 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2019-09-26 · J Adolesc · vol. 76 · issue 1 · pp. 197–201
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 88 citations · more than 99% of similar papers · 18.5× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 17 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Mental Health via Writing · Sleep and related disorders
- Keywords
- social media addiction, sleep disorders, depressive symptoms, adolescents, middle adolescence, longitudinal associations, gender differences, adolescent mental health
- MeSH
- humans, longitudinal studies, adolescent behavior, depression, adolescent, estonia, female, male, self report, social media, sleep wake disorders
1 author
From EE
- Lennart Raudsepp · correspondingUniversity of Tartu
Abstract
Introduction
Problematic social media use and sleep disturbances are independently related with mental health. However, evidence of combined effects of changes in problematic social media use and sleep disturbances on changes in depressive symptoms in adolescents is limited. The aim of this study was to examine complex longitudinal associations between problematic social media use, sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms during middle adolescence.
Methods
A 2-year longitudinal study was conducted consisting of three waves, each separated by 1 year. The participants were 249 Estonian adolescents (46,6% female) aged 15.3 ± 0.3 years (M ± SD) who completed self-report measures of problematic social media use, sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms.
Results
The findings revealed that initial level in both problematic social media use and sleep disturbances both significantly predicted change in depressive symptoms. Moreover, the increases in problematic social media use and sleep disturbances were both associated with an increase in depressive symptoms, irrespective of gender.
Conclusions
Our findings add strength to the evidence supporting longitudinal associations between problematic social media use and depressive symptoms and sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms in middle adolescence.
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