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Kids with smartphones have better mental health, study finds. Inside the Bop House, Tariffluencers, Gen Z's safe space, the latest meme stock, Grok dunking, India's Netflix, Ashton Hall and the rise of isolationist masculinity, and MORE -- all in today's newsletter https://www.usermag.co/p/kids-with-smartphones-have-better
@taylorlorenz Legit is this an April Fool’s post?
@zjp Top tip: Sometimes when you click on links, there's more information on the page you arrive at. /s
Here's the link to the report, which is 84 pages long.
"Similar to the pattern observed with online bullying, kids who own a smartphone are slightly less likely to report
feeling depressed most days compared with those who don’t own a smartphone (21% vs. 26%), which may be due
to socioeconomic status affecting smartphone ownership and depression, or to reverse causation, where parents of children with depression may be less likely to give them a smartphone to protect them from the harmful effects of digital media use. By contrast, children who own a tablet are more likely to report feeling depressed compared to those who don’t (26% vs. 19%)."
@zjp Though it does look at a zillion different measures, & as you'd expect they often point in different directions -- it isn't all positives for smartphone-owning kids vs. non-owning ones.
@akuchling @zjp Clearly. The report just seemed to be definitive on a direction I didn’t expect.