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

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/massive-analysis-of-longitudinal-data-links-social-media-to-poorer-youth-mental-health/

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Preliminary data from a longitudinal AI impact study

https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/ai-productivity-gains-are-10-not

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Planning a longitudinal study? Here’s four questions you should ask:

🔹 How should time be scaled?

🔹 How many assessments are needed?

🔹 How frequently should assessments occur?

🔹 When should assessments happen?

Hopwood et al. (2022). “Connecting theory to methods in longitudinal research”:
https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211008407

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