Bidirectional Associations Between Screen Time and Irritability in Preadolescence: A Temporal Network Analysis

These findings suggest a bidirectional association between irritability and online chatting. TV watching and social media unidirectionally predicted increased irritability. These associations highlighted the importance of monitoring screen use patterns as both potential behavioral symptoms and modifiable risk factors in interventions targeting emotion dysregulation. More research is needed to better understand how various screen activities and contents and adolescents' motives to use them are linked to irritability.