An analysis of data from a longitudinal study of child development in Canada showed that girls who spent more hours on the internet at 13 years of age tended to have higher depressive symptoms at age 15. In the same way, girls’ internet usage at age 15 was associated with more depressive symptoms at 17. These associations were absent in boys. The study was published in Psychological Medicine. ...
    • @[email protected]English
      20•1 year ago

      Amazing how Lemmy users are just at bad as Redditors when it comes to jumping to conclusions from the header, rather than actually giving a look into the article.

      About half of the participants were girls (…) The results showed that girls reported substantially higher depression scores than boys at all ages. They also reported more hours of internet use per week than boys at age 15. Average Internet use times of girls and boys were similar at 13 and 17 years of age.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•1 year ago

        So it sounds like this is based on user reported data. Aren’t boys much less likely to report depression symptoms regardless of whether they exist?