With 300,000 young research participants, this paper is a meta-study of three large pieces of research on well-being and digital-technology use in the UK and the US between 2007 and 2016. Orben & Baukney-Przybylski (2019) reviewed the data sets, and running all theoretically plausible analyses available, which included both dependent and independent variables, including, and excluding, co-variates. The number of analyses allowed a complex understanding of the associations and variation between digital-technology use and well-being to be developed.
And the bottom-line? There appears to be little to no causal relationship between screen use and lack of well-being. The results show instead that smoking marijuana has 2.7 times more negative association; being bullied, 4.3 times. Well-being is more strongly related to having enough sleep, and having breakfast.
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References:
- Orben, A., & Baukney-Przybylski, A. K. (2019). The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use. Nature Human Behaviour, published online 14 January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0506-1
- University of Oxford (January 2019). Technology use explains at most 0.4 percent of adolescent wellbeing, new study finds. Retrieved from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-technology-percent-adolescent-wellbeing.html
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