The course of problematic social media use in young adolescents: A latent class growth analysis
Boer M, Stevens GWJM, Finkenauer C, van den Eijnden RJJM
Child development · 22 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
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Publication
- Published
- 2021-11-15 · Child Dev · vol. 93 · issue 2 · pp. e168–e187
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 50 citations · more than 97% of similar papers · 7.7× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 57 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Child Development and Digital Technology · Social Media and Politics
- Keywords
- social media addiction, early adolescents, social media use frequency, developmental trajectories, subjective well-being, self-control, social competence
- MeSH
- humans, adolescent, female, male, social media, latent class analysis
4 authors
From NL
- Maartje Boer · correspondingUtrecht University
- Gonneke W. J. M. StevensUtrecht University
- Catrin FinkenauerUtrecht University
- Regina J. J. M. van den EijndenUtrecht University
Abstract
Using four waves of longitudinal data collected in 2015-2019 from 1419 Dutch adolescents (Mage = 12.5, 45.9% female, 21.9% immigrant), this study identified trajectories of problematic social media use (SMU) in parallel with trajectories of SMU frequency. Latent class growth analysis identified two subgroups with relatively high levels of problematic SMU over time: One showed high (24.7%) and one showed average SMU frequency (15.8%). Also, two subgroups with persistently low levels of problematic SMU were identified: One reported low (22.4%) and one reported high SMU frequency (37.1%). Although both subgroups with high levels of problematic SMU reported low subjective well-being, the group with high SMU frequency showed low self-control, whereas the group with average SMU frequency reported poor social competencies.
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