Social Media Use and Its Concurrent and Subsequent Relation to a Biological Marker of Inflammation: Short-Term Longitudinal Study
David Lee, Tao Jiang, Jennifer Crocker, Baldwin Way · 2023
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David Lee and co-authors link scrolling time to a blood marker of inflammation in college students. Social media's mental health effects are well studied, but its fingerprints on the body are not. Their 2023 study measures use objectively with phone screen-time logs, week by week for five weeks, and draws blood at the start and end.
The marker is C-reactive protein, a general inflammation signal tied to depression, chronic disease, and early death. Heavier users carried more of it at both time points. More telling, students whose use rose across the five weeks showed rising protein too. That within-person climb hints the arrow points from feeds to physiology. Health psychologists get rare biomarker evidence in a field built on self-report.
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| CREATOR | David Lee, Tao Jiang, Jennifer Crocker, Baldwin Way |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |