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Economic, educational and gender inequities can contribute to problematic social media use among teens

A new McGill study suggests that problematic social media use among teens is in part related to broader social inequalities. Zékai Lu, a Ph.D. student in McGill's Department of Sociology and author of the study, had set out to determine whether problematic social media use is driven mainly by indivi...

Economic, educational and gender inequities can contribute to problematic social media use among teens
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A new McGill study suggests that problematic social media use among teens is in part related to broader social inequalities. Zékai Lu, a Ph.D. student in McGill's Department of Sociology and author of the study, had set out to determine whether problematic social media use is driven mainly by individual traits or whether the social environment of the country a teen lives in also plays a significant role.

Originally published at Phys.org

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