Social media, screen time, and young people's mental health
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Social media platforms and norms for how people engage with them continue to evolve during the time between data collection and publication.
“as social media platforms (and norms for how people engage with them) continue to evolve during the time between data collection and publication [64].”
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- Authors
- Lancet, T.
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- The Lancet
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- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-02
- Volume
- 393
- Issue
- 10172
- Pages
- 611
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
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- W4241537327
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- 2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 2
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- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Keywords
- social media, screen time, youth mental health, adolescent mental health, self-harm, Instagram, suicide, social media regulation, privacy law
- MeSH terms
- Screen Time, Adolescent, Female, Humans, Mental Health, Suicide, Social Media
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