Fig. 4. Percentage of participants who reported disordered eating, self-harm or suicidal thoughts in the past year, or who met the threshold for depression, by sex and daily users of each platform.
The percentage of daily users of each platform who have reported each symptom is given in each sub-graph, with 95% confidence intervals. Disordered eating, self-harm and suicidal thoughts were assessed in the main sample alongside the social media questions (N = 4083) and included for those participants who reported them in the past year. Depression (N = 2991) was measured in the sub-sample with the Moods and Feelings questionnaire in the year prior to the social media measurement, and uses a cut off of 12 or more to indicate the presence of depression. Participants can belong to the daily user group of more than one platform.
