The article reports that higher ADHD symptom levels are linked to problematic social media use and problematic gaming, but this association is not explained by core cognitive deficits such as inhibitory control, reward sensitivity, or temporal processing. The findings suggest that cognitive deficits alone do not account for digital media problems, indicating potentially distinct underlying mechanisms for social media use and gaming.

The topic is of interest to psychology because it examines how neuropsychological factors relate to behavioral addictions and highlights the complexity of ADHD traits beyond cognitive deficits in understanding digital media behaviors.

Article Title: Cognitive deficits underlying ADHD do not explain the link with problematic social media use

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/cognitive-deficits-underlying-adhd-do-not-explain-the-link-with-problematic-social-media-use/

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#ADHD #ProblematicSocialMediaUse #CognitiveDeficits #BehavioralAddictions #EmergingAdulthood

Results are VERY preliminary in a too-smakl convenience sample (n~100 undergrads) but it looks right now like maybe subjective age bias in #EmergingAdults is...

- correlated negatively with non-school online time (cooperative or solo)

- correlated negatively with F2F classes taken

- correlated positively with online classes taken

So online classes might have made subjective age bias worse while all the other online activities over the past two years (social media, gaming, streaming) ameliorated it?

Again, a good deal more checking to do. These effects are not solid, yet.

#research #EmergingAdulthood #SSEA #OnlineLearning