Health and Well-Being Promotion Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, 00271 Helsinki, Finland.
Social Sciences Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology Turku, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 19;19(4):2406. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042406.
Adolescents' excessive social media use has characteristics similar to other addictive behaviours. This study aims to explore whether the same risk factors are associated with excessive social media use as with excessive gaming and gambling among Finnish adolescents.
Multinomial logistic regression analyses were carried out using the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs data, collected from Finnish adolescents aged 15-16 in 2019 ( = 4595).
Excessive use of social media was more common among girls (reported by 46% of respondents) than boys of the same age (28%), whereas boys reported both excessive gaming (23%) and gambling (6%) more often than girls (4% and 1%, respectively). All differences between genders were statistically significant ( < 0.0001). Daily smoking was associated with a high risk of excessive gambling (AOR = 3.23) and low risk of excessive gaming (AOR = 0.27) but had no significant effect on excessive social media use. Cannabis use in the past 12 months was positively associated only with excessive gambling (AOR = 2.39), while past 12 months alcohol consumption increased the risk for excessive social media use (AOR = 1.25).
Adolescent girls are at greater risk of excessive social media use than boys, while boys are at greater risk of excessive gaming and gambling. The associations with known risk factors are somewhat different for excessive use of social media as compared to excessive gambling and gaming and should be acknowledged when developing preventive measures for adolescents.
青少年过度使用社交媒体的行为特征与其他成瘾行为相似。本研究旨在探讨在芬兰青少年中，是否与过度游戏和赌博一样，同样的风险因素与过度使用社交媒体有关。
使用欧洲学校酒精和其他毒品调查项目的数据，对 2019 年芬兰 15-16 岁青少年（n = 4595）进行多项逻辑回归分析。
过度使用社交媒体在女孩中更为常见（46%的受访者报告），而同龄男孩则更为常见（28%），而男孩报告过度游戏（23%）和赌博（6%）的比例均高于女孩（分别为 4%和 1%）。所有性别差异均具有统计学意义（<0.0001）。每天吸烟与高风险的过度赌博（OR = 3.23）和低风险的过度游戏（OR = 0.27）相关，但对过度使用社交媒体没有显著影响。过去 12 个月使用大麻仅与过度赌博呈正相关（OR = 2.39），而过去 12 个月的饮酒量增加了过度使用社交媒体的风险（OR = 1.25）。
与男孩相比，少女过度使用社交媒体的风险更高，而男孩过度游戏和赌博的风险更高。与过度使用社交媒体相比，与过度赌博和游戏相关的已知风险因素的关联略有不同，在为青少年制定预防措施时应予以承认。
