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Social media use exceeding two hours daily directly causes measurable increases in clinical depression among adolescents.

Submitted by ◎ stannebraska (329) 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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This claim asserts a causal relationship between heavy social media usage (defined as more than two hours per day) and clinically diagnosable depression in teenagers, suggesting that the platform use itself is a direct causative factor rather than merely correlational.

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Social media use exceeding two hours daily directly causes measurable increases in clinical depression among adolescents.
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adolescent-mental-health clinical-psychology developmental-psychology digital-media-effects psychopathology social-psychology virtues
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