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Correction of Effect Size in Meta-Analysis of Social Media Impact on Adolescent Mental Health

  • September 1, 2026

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    An error was identified in the effect size from a study in the meta-analysis on social media and adolescent mental health.

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    The error involved the correlation between Snapchat time and depression in the clinical subsample.

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    Correcting the error resulted in minor changes to reported decimal values but did not alter the overall conclusions.

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    Influence diagnostics revealed an additional outlier in the overall meta-analysis after the correction.

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    The main findings remained consistent even after the identified outlier was removed.

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Error in Effect Size

  • September 1, 2026

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