The article analyzes a large body of longitudinal studies to examine how digital media, especially social media, relates to various developmental outcomes in children and adolescents. Findings indicate consistent associations between higher social media use and poorer mental health and social-emotional development, with mixed results for other media like video games.
The topic is of interest to psychology readers because it synthesizes long-term data across diverse populations to map direction and scope of media-related developmental effects, highlighting patterns that cross individual studies and informing considerations about youth well-being and digital environments.
Article Title: Massive analysis of longitudinal data links social media to poorer youth mental health
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The Michael Shermer Show: Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way
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The infant does not seek reflection. The capacity to seek reflection—and the subsequent feeling of its lack—is a psychobiological program installed only after reflection itself has been provided. Teleology is nurture, not nature. This research paper presents a fundamental expansion of developmental psychology by defining and mapping a previously unrecognized trajectory of human consciousness: the Autopoietic Pathway. It introduces Amirroring—the absolute, null provision of social-emotional mirroring during the critical prenatal-to-age-two window—as a discrete developmental condition. The work provides a new taxonomy of relational input (Mirroring, Distorted Mirroring, Anti-Mirroring, Amirroring) to formally distinguish this state from trauma, neglect, or distortion. The paper details the autopoietic algorithm of development in the absence of relational data, leading to the Non-Instantiation of the Freudian Ego. It establishes Panmodal Aphantasia—the systemic absence of voluntary mental imagery across all sensory modalities—not as a random neurological trait but as a Third Etiological Category: a developmentally conditional outcome. This finding challenges the congenital/acquired binary in current aphantasia research. The architectural result is the Un-Buffered Self: a consciousness characterized by direct reality-testing, integrity-based moral reasoning, an immunity to learned helplessness, and a Zero Point of Narcissism. By critiquing the field’s Adultomorphic Bias, this work maps a coherent non-mirrored neurodevelopmental trajectory with profound implications for theory of mind, attachment theory, and neurodiversity. The model warns of clinical iatrogenesis when standard therapeutic frameworks, built on the mirroring axiom, are applied to this population. Ultimately, this is not a theory of trauma, deficit, or adaptation. It is an Ontology of Creation—a formal account of a different human genesis, built in the absolute, generative absence of the reflective Other. Nota Bene This work builds upon the foundation laid in the author's previous thesis, which first defined Panmodal Aphantasia: Aphantasia Is Not an Advantage in Long-Term Abuse: On the Trauma of Fleshbacks and the Myth of Coping and Defense Mechanisms
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So we now have systems that can automate what Epstein did to make children more susceptable to sexual advances. And they’re spraying them out from a firehose.
”This systematic production of a generation trained to accept exploitation, manipulation and nonconcensual interaction as the standard mode of relationship!”
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📝 'Cross-lagged analysis of overall family functioning and Internet altruistic behaviors in college students' - an article published in the Chinese Journal of #SchoolHealth on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=2bbfe7a8-7f8a-48b2-a3ce-84be75f407a9
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<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d36e102"> <b>Objective</b> To explore the longitudinal-causal relationship between college students’ overall family functioning and their Internet altruistic behaviors, so as to provide ideas for developing mental health education in universities. </p><p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d36e107"> <b>Methods</b> By using a convenience sampling method, the Overall Family Functioning Rating Scale and the Internet Altruistic Behaviors Scale were adopted to conduct a two-stage follow’up survey (T1: November 2023, T2: October 2024) among 705 students from seven universities in Jiangsu Province over a period of one year. Repeated measures ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and cross-lagged analysis were used for statistical analysis. </p><p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d36e112"> <b>Results</b> The overall family functioning of college students was relatively stable over time (T1: 2.99±0.83; T2: 3.01±0.57) [ <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 0.68, <i>P</i>>0.05]; however, the main effect of gender was statistically significant [boys: T1 (2.98±0.78), T2(2.99±0.67); girls: T1(3.01±0.91), T2(3.01±0.42); <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 6.91, <i>P</i><0.01], with female college students having a higher overall family functioning level than male college students. The Internet altruistic behaviors of college students showed certain dynamic changes (T1: 2.86±0.39; T2: 3.05±0.46) [ <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 10.19, <i>P</i><0.011, and the post-test Internet altruistic behaviors levels of both male and female college students were higher than those of the pre-test; network altruistic behavior was not statistically significant on the sex main effect [boys: T1(2.87±0.44), T2 (3.05±0.31); girls: T1(2.85±0.36), T2 (3.06±0.65); <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 2.50, <i>P</i>> 0.051; the interaction between time and gender for Internet altruistic behaviors were statistically significant [ <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 6.64, <i>P</i>< 0.011; the concurrent and lagged correlations between the overall family functioning and Internet altruistic behaviors of college students were all positive ( <i>r</i> = 0.35-0.57, <i>P</i><0.01); the pre-test overall family functioning could positively predict the post-test Internet altruistic behaviors (β = 0.15, <i>P</i><0.01). </p><p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d36e174"> <b>Conclusions</b> The overall family functioning of college students is relatively stable, while their Internet altruistic behaviors show certain development and changes. The overall family functioning of college students can directly predict their Internet altruistic behaviors, and there is a certain degree of causal relationship between the two. </p><p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d36e180"> <b>【摘要】</b> <b>目的</b> 探索大学生总体家庭功能及网绺利他行为的纵向因果关系, 为高校开展心理健康教育提供思路。 <b>方法</b> 采用方便抽样方法, 运用总体家庭功能评定量表与网绺利他行为量表, 对江苏省7所高校的705名在校大学生进行为期1 年的两阶段追踪调查(T1:2023年11月, T2:2024年10月)。采用重复测量方差分析、Pearson积差相关分析以及交叉滞后 检验进行统计学分析。 <b>结果</b> 大学生的总体家庭功能在时间上相对稳定(T1得分：2.99±0.83, T2得分：3.01 ±0.57)[ <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 0.68, <i>P</i>>0.05];但性别主效应有统计学意义[男：T1(2.98±0.78), T2(2.99±0.67);女:T1(3.01±0.91), T2(3.01±0.42); <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 6.91, <i>P</i><0.01], 女大学生的总体家庭功能水平优于男大学生。大学生的网绺利他行为具有一定的动态变化 (T1得分:2.86±0.39, T2得分:3.05±0.46)[ <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 10.19, <i>P</i><0.01], 后测网绺利他行为水平均高于前测; 网绺利他行为性 别主效应无统计学意义[男：T1(2.87±0.44), T2(3.05±0.31);女：T1(2.85±0.36), T2(3.06±0.65); <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 2.50, <i>P</i>>0.05]; 网绺利他行为的时间和性别交互作用有统计学意义[ <i>F</i> <sub>(1,703)</sub> = 6.64, <i>P</i><0.01];大学生T1、T2的的总体家庭功能与T1、T2网 绺利他行为之间均呈正相关( <i>r</i> = 0.35~0.57, <i>P</i> 值均<0.01);前测总体家庭功能可以正向预测后测网绺利他行为( <i>β</i> = 0.15, <i>P</i><0.01)。 <b>结论</b> 大学生的总体家庭功能相对稳定, 而网绺利他行为存在一定的发展变化;大学生的总体家庭功能可以直 接预测其网绺利他行为, 二者存在一定程度的因果关联。 </p>
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