The use of social media by Australian preadolescents and its links with mental health.

@article{Fardouly2020TheUO,
  title={The use of social media by Australian preadolescents and its links with mental health.},
  author={Jasmine Fardouly and Natasha R. Magson and Ronald M. Rapee and Carly J. Johnco and Ella L. Oar},
  journal={Journal of clinical psychology},
  year={2020},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:210985031}
}
Preadolescents could be encouraged to reduce their opportunities to make appearance comparisons and to invest less in their appearance on social media, as appearance comparisons uniquely predicted all aspects of mental health.
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