Problematic smartphone use and functional somatic symptoms among adolescents: Mediating roles of depressive symptoms..., 2022, Bae et al

Andy

Andy

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Full title: Problematic smartphone use and functional somatic symptoms among adolescents: Mediating roles of depressive symptoms and peer relationships by gender

Highlights
  • Depressive symptoms were a mediator between problematic smartphone use (PSU) and FSS.
  • Peer relationships (PR) were a mediator between PSU and FSS only for males.
  • Depressive symptoms and PR were serial mediators between PSU use and FSS only for males.
Abstract

This study explored the relationship between problematic smartphone use and depressive symptoms, peer relationships, and functional somatic symptoms with a representative sample of Korean male and female adolescents using serial multiple mediation models. The results identified the mediating effect of depressive symptoms and peer relationships for males in the association between problematic smartphone use and FSS. The serial mediating effect of the two mediators was also verified in the model for males. However, in the model for females, only depressive symptoms mediated the relationship between problematic smartphone use and FSS. The findings suggest that parents and professionals should assess adolescents with problematic smartphone use for the risk of FSS when depressive symptoms develop. Schools should also provide programs to build positive peer relationships to reduce FSS.

Paywall, https://www.psychiatricnursing.org/article/S0883-9417(22)00045-0/fulltext
 
Reminds me of all the dumb things written over the years about the dangers of bicycles (think of all the women, straddling things, bumps in the road, the outrage!) or Reefer madness. Same repetitive nonsense as "the youth have lost all respect for their elders" that go back, literally written in stone, to Antiquity.

Except now there's a fancy pseudoscience that people are just horny to believe in, since all beliefs have basically been debunked by science, this is basically the last one that remains mainstream. You can see it in general discussion on Internet forums, only ever about anecdotes, but damn are people willing to accept anything, literally anything, that suggests we have magical powers over illness and suffering. Even long after it's been perfectly clear that illness is about immunology.

It's really past time for this silliness about "exploring" and "mediating" and all those crap buzzwords are relegated to the bottom of the world's deepest pit.
 
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