Keywords depression, sociocultural factors, suicide prevention, interpersonal interaction, mass media

This is what no materialism does to a motherfucker!!! but really these idealist PMC psychologists are paid to be soulless class traitors. Liberals cannot confront how their political choices are killing their children, because they're paid to be part of the human sacrificial death cult. They're talking about kids being glued to screens and yet themselves are nothing but parasitic growths off of The Spectacle. So up their own asses to think that the Dow Jones numbers going up proves that political-economic alienation isn't real...hey, I know something that's real! check this out: :gui-better:

rates increased between 2010 and 2015, especially among females. Adolescents who spent more time on new media (including social media and electronic devices such as smartphones) were more likely to report mental health issues, and adolescents who spent more time on nonscreen activities (in-person social interaction, sports/exercise, homework, print media, and attending religious services) were less likely.

Reading a fascist rag like The Atlantic prevents depression because it turns people into soulless borg drones who no longer have free will to be capable of self terminating.

Since 2010, iGen adolescents have spent more time on new media screen activities and less time on nonscreen activities, which may account for the increases in depression and suicide. In contrast, cyclical economic factors such as unemployment and the Dow Jones Index were not linked to depressive symptoms or suicide rates when matched by year.

unemployment statistics don't really mean much since it doesn't actually count everyone who is unemployed, or underemployed etc

  • s0ciety [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's absolutely cool that when people do "critical" analysis of social media they completely drop the ball on why these networks are purposefully designed to be addictive hellscapes.

    • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, for teens, the manifestation of capitalism isn’t unemployment and the Dow Jones. It’s social media, and commodification of life, etc. so this paper is correct in their analysis, but shortsighted, probably on purpose.

      • s0ciety [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "shortsighted on purpose" is a good way to describe our media outlets tbh

  • vanityfairz [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Love taking confounding factors and implying causality. Yes, I'm a neolib how did you know?