Associations between social media use and cognitive abilities: Results from a large-scale study of adolescents

Abstract

In adolescence, smartphone use in general and social media use in particular has often been associated with negative effects, such as higher anxiety levels and body dissatisfaction. Other outcomes – such as fundamental cognitive abilities and skills (e.g., intelligence, information processing, spatial perception) – have rarely been the focus of research. Here, we analysed data from a large sample of adolescents (12–16 years; N > 12,000) who performed a series of psychometric tests ranging from intelligence, spatial perception, and information processing, to practical numeracy, and compared the

Abstract by Stefan Stieger; Sabine Wunderl, Computers in Human Behavior (2022) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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