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Low social support and a tendency to compare yourself to others may be associated with problematic social media use, per study of 403 Italian adolescents

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Social support and social comparison tendencies predict trajectories of adolescents’ problematic social media use: A longitudinal study

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Low social support and a tendency to compare yourself to others may be associated with problematic social media use, per study of 403 Italian adolescents.

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Low social support and a tendency to compare yourself to others may be associated with problematic social media use, per study of 403 Italian adolescents

Article URL: https://plos.io/4kMA1J8

Article title: Social support and social comparison tendencies predict trajectories of adolescents’ problematic social media use: A longitudinal study

Author countries: Italy, Germany

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.


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