Associations between social media use and cognitive abilities: Results from a large-scale study of adolescents

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Highlights：

• Social media use is not substantially associated with results from tests of cognitive abilities and skills.

• Results from random-forest models suggest low importance of all test results compared to known sex- and age-differences.

• Negative effects of social media use may have been overstated in past research.

摘要

•Social media use is not substantially associated with results from tests of cognitive abilities and skills.•Results from random-forest models suggest low importance of all test results compared to known sex- and age-differences.•Negative effects of social media use may have been overstated in past research.

论文关键词：Cognitive ability,Social media use,Adolescents,Intelligence,Random-forest model

论文评审过程：Received 3 December 2021, Revised 17 May 2022, Accepted 14 June 2022, Available online 16 June 2022, Version of Record 19 June 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107358