The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use
The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use
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DOI：
10.1038/s41562-018-0506-1
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发表时间：
2019-02-01
影响因子：
29.9
通讯作者：
Przybylski, Andrew K.
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作者：
Orben, Amy;Przybylski, Andrew K.
年轻人对数字技术的广泛使用引发了人们的猜测，即经常使用数字技术会对心理健康产生负面影响。目前支持这一观点的经验证据主要基于对大规模社会数据集的二次分析。虽然这些数据集为高效能的调查提供了宝贵的资源，但它们的许多变量和观察结果往往以分析的灵活性进行探索，将小的影响标记为具有统计学意义，从而导致潜在的假阳性和相互矛盾的结果。在这里，我们通过在三个大规模社会数据集（总n = 355，358）中应用规范曲线分析（SCA）来解决这些方法上的挑战，以严格检查数字技术对青少年影响的相关证据。我们发现，数字技术使用与青少年幸福感之间的关联是负面的，但很小，最多只能解释幸福感变化的0.4%。考虑到更广泛的数据背景，这些影响太小，不值得政策改变。
The widespread use of digital technologies by young people has spurred speculation that their regular use negatively impacts psychological well-being. Current empirical evidence supporting this idea is largely based on secondary analyses of large-scale social datasets. Though these datasets provide a valuable resource for highly powered investigations, their many variables and observations are often explored with an analytical flexibility that marks small effects as statistically significant, thereby leading to potential false positives and conflicting results. Here we address these methodological challenges by applying specification curve analysis (SCA) across three large-scale social datasets (total n = 355,358) to rigorously examine correlational evidence for the effects of digital technology on adolescents. The association we find between digital technology use and adolescent well-being is negative but small, explaining at most 0.4% of the variation in well-being. Taking the broader context of the data into account suggests that these effects are too small to warrant policy change.