This doesn’t sound like anything conclusive, but it might interest people:
Expert compares doomscrolling to being in a room where people are constantly yelling at you and says media needs to rethink news
…they also noted that the students sampled were “convenient”, meaning they were selected based on their accessibility to the research. They also wrote the sample size was “not appropriate to draw clear conclusions regarding the nature of this association”.
…She said it was impossible to tell whether doomscrolling caused existential anxiety or misanthropy, or whether “doomscrolling and anxiety are associated with each other for [another reason]”.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245195882400071X
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