Marina Serdiouk, Philip Rodkin, Rebecca Madill, Handrea Logis, Scott Gest
Rejection and victimization among elementary school children: the buffering role of classroom-level predictors
Journal of abnormal child psychology
social media influence alcohol initiation behaviors sipping lead future adverse alcoholrelated outcomes studies examined role problematic social media use characterized addiction mood modification tolerance withdrawal conflict relapse especially early adolescence examine prospective association social media use sipping alcohol nationwide sample early adolescents extent problematic social media use mediates association analyzed prospective data adolescent brain cognitive development study n 7514 ages 910 years baseline 20162018 estimate associations social media time year 1 alcohol sipping year 3 using modified poisson regression adjusting confounders testing problematic social media use year 2 mediator social media time year 1 prospectively associated 131 95 confidence interval 120143 times higher risk newonset sipping year 3 association social media time newonset alcohol sipping partially mediated problematic social media use year 2 250 reduction association former two factors adding problematic social media use p 0002 time spent social media associated higher risk alcohol sipping diverse national sample early adolescents association partially mediated problematic social media use media literacy education family media use plans could advise early adolescents exposure alcohol content social media warning signs problematic use