A rise in social media use in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: the French validation of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale in a Canadian cohort

Table 2 Descriptive results on demographics, social media (SM) use and Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) scores, with respect to hospitalized, community and total samples

Variable	Hospitalized		Community		T or χ²(p-value)	Total sample
Variable	Absolute	%	Absolute	%	T or χ²(p-value)	Absolute	%
Age (mean ; SD)	(15.02 ; 1.42)		(14.51 ; 1.72)		0.012	(14.76 ; 1.60)
Sex
Male Female	19 104	15.4 84.6	40 84	32,3 67,7	0,002	59 188	23.9 76.1
h(s) a day on SM
< 2 2–4 > 4	27 43 52	22.1 35.2 42.3	52 38 29	43.7 31.9 24.4	0.001	79 81 81	32.8 33.6 33.6
Self-perception of SM use
Positive Negative Neutral	51 15 56	41.8 12.3 45.9	61 12 46	51.3 10.1 38.7	0.338	112 27 102	46.5 11.2 42.3
Perceived change in use of SM during COVID-19 pandemic
Increase Decrease Same	103 6 13	84.4 4.9 10.7	87 2 30	73.1 1.7 25.2	0.005	190 8 43	78.8 3.3 17.8
BSMAS scores
< 24 24 or more (PUSM)	104 19	84.6 15.4	116 8	93.5 6.5	0.023	220 27	89.1 10.9

Question on SM were answered only by those who were using at least one SM platform (n = 241)
SD: standard deviation
PUSM: problematic use of social media

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