Claima36f43adebfa7c6649ec6719acfd31294e558c42bf98c13e55c5a6cbf4d38c70·Showcase: Smartphones, social media, and adolescent mental health

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Specification-curve analyses (Orben & Przybylski 2019 and successors) systematically vary analytic choices across thousands of plausible model specifications and find that the median association between adolescent digital technology use and well-being explains less than half a percent of variance — comparable in magnitude to associations with eating potatoes or wearing glasses.

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Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1
Orben & Przybylski — Adolescent well-being and digital tech use (Nat Hum Behav 2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1

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