TABLE 1.
Differences in social media (SM) use by sex.
| Total sample N = 5,070 | Female N = 2,753 | Male N = 2,203 | P | |
| I do not use social media | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 3,424 (67.5%) | 2,064 (75.0%) | 1,265 (57.4%) | |
| Yes | 162 (3.2%) | 63 (2.3%) | 92 (4.2%) | |
| < 0.001 | ||||
| No | 2,756 (54.4%) | 1,576 (57.2%) | 1,100 (49.9%) | |
| Yes | 830 (16.4%) | 551 (20.0%) | 257 (11.7%) | |
| < 0.001 | ||||
| No | 582 (11.5%) | 269 (9.8%) | 285 (12.9%) | |
| Yes | 3,004 (59.3%) | 1,858 (67.5%) | 1,072 (48.7%) | |
| < 0.001 | ||||
| No | 2,749 (54.2%) | 1,390 (50.5%) | 1,276 (57.9%) | |
| Yes | 837 (16.5%) | 737 (26.8%) | 81 (3.7%) | |
| < 0.001 | ||||
| No | 3,242 (63.9%) | 2,022 (73.4%) | 1,137 (51.6%) | |
| Yes | 344 (6.8%) | 105 (3.8%) | 220 (10.0%) | |
| Snapchat | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 1,142 (22.5%) | 531 (19.3%) | 562 (25.5%) | |
| Yes | 2,444 (48.2%) | 1,596 (58.0%) | 795 (36.1%) | |
| TikTok | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 1,889 (37.3%) | 908 (33.0%) | 915 (41.5%) | |
| Yes | 1,697 (33.5%) | 1,219 (44.3%) | 442 (20.1%) | |
| 0.97 | ||||
| No | 2,587 (51.0%) | 1,535 (55.8%) | 980 (44.5%) | |
| Yes | 999 (19.7%) | 592 (21.5%) | 377 (17.1%) | |
| YouTube | 0.54 | |||
| No | 872 (17.2%) | 512 (18.6%) | 339 (15.4%) | |
| Yes | 2,714 (53.5%) | 1,615 (58.7%) | 1,018 (46.2%) | |
| Other social media | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 3,386 (66.8%) | 2,044 (74.2%) | 1,256 (57.0%) | |
| Yes | 200 (3.9%) | 83 (3.0%) | 101 (4.6%) | |
| Number of social media platforms used, mean (SD) | 3.69 (1.85) | 3.99 (1.76) | 3.24 (1.86) | < 0.001 |
| Time spent on social media daily | < 0.001 | |||
| Less than 1 h | 493 (9.7%) | 222 (8.1%) | 253 (11.5%) | |
| 1–2 h | 918 (18.1%) | 525 (19.1%) | 371 (16.8%) | |
| More than 2 h | 2,135 (42.1%) | 1,367 (49.7%) | 706 (32.0%) |