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Longitudinal Survey Finds Little Evidence Social Tech Predicts Adult Life Satisfaction
Key Takeaways
- A longitudinal study from Georgetown, USC, and UC Berkeley examined whether social technology use predicts life satisfaction in U.S. adults.
- Published in Nature Human Behaviour, the research found little evidence that changes in social technology use predicted subsequent life satisfaction.
- The design examined each platform separately, followed the same people over time, and tested variation by age, gender, race, education, and income.
- Co-first author Kostadin Kushlev compared asking whether social media is good for well-being to asking whether eating is good for the heart.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org