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September 23, 2025AdiccionesOpen Access

Social media addiction, personality, psychopathology and gender: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings in adolescents

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FLFrancisco J. López-FernándezLMLaura MezquitaVVVerónica Vidal-Arenas

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations reveal the complex role of personality and gender in social media addiction.

Key Points

  • Social media addiction showed significant associations with various psychological problems in adolescents, emphasizing its impact.
  • The Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale demonstrated strong psychometric properties for measuring addiction among the 616 participants.
  • Gender differences revealed that boys and girls exhibited distinct patterns of personality traits linked with social media addiction.
  • Longitudinal findings highlight the necessity of considering personality and gender when examining the development of social media addiction.

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López-Fernández et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d473a631b076d99fa6c05fhttps://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.2084
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