Girls who spend long hours on the internet are at increased risk of depression, study finds (www.psypost.org)

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[-] Renneder@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

The study found that girls who spend more time online have more severe depressive symptoms.
The boys had no such associations.
Depression is becoming more common and can lead to learning and relationship difficulties.
Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depression.
Poor mental health during adolescence can lead to academic and relationship problems.
The study found a correlation between Internet use and symptoms of depression in girls.
The study contributes to the scientific understanding of the relationship between Internet use and depression.
However, the researchers did not take into account the details of Internet activity and spoke French.

[-] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

"researchers did not take into account the details of internet activity" seems like a pretty big hole in the study...

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Probably means they didn't take into account the fact that boys were just blasting people in online games whereas girls drowned themselves in social media? I reckon it's nothing to do with actual gender and more about what those genders spend their time doing online.

[-] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a girl who spent time in MMOs before social media was even a thing...

it was all the casual misogyny. Girls can't go to (online) games for a release, it's misogyny everywhere.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck, good point :/

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

This makes a lot of sense. Video games is interacting with actual people online and I think exposes many more facets of people, than social media where everything someone posts is curated to show only the best parts of themselves.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

As they say, you never truly know someone until you frag them

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's the next thing to measure.

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