Irish journal of psychological medicine
An investigation of gender-based differences in social media use, sexting behaviours and body dissatisfaction as risk factors for poor mental health and self-harm in adolescents: a cross-sectional population-based study.
Delia S Cotter, Niamh Dooley, Lorna Staines, Emmet Power, Sadhbh McCay, Katelyn Gallo, Aditi Gupta, Louise Doyle, David R Cotter, Mary Cannon
Published: 202510.1017/ipm.2025.10122
Abstract
A large body of evidence suggests that adolescent mental health has worsened in recent years, particularly amongst young women. We investigated three putative risk factors which are very prevalent in the modern-day life of adolescents: social media u…
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