📰 Today Nadia Bij de Vaate was interviewed by RTL Nieuws in which she discussed the positivity bias on social media and how social media shapes adolescents' identity rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederla…

Are you passionate about digital media & mental health? Join us as a PhD student ASCoR | @[email protected]! 📌Apply now! Deadline is November 23. #PhDPosition #DigitalMedia #MentalHealth

Het Consortium on Individual Development (CID) bestaat 10 jaar! In de speciale uitgave van New Scientist NL legt Teun Siebers uit hoe jongeren sociale media gebruiken en hoe dat hun kan afleiden. Meer lezen?issuu.com/vmadmin/docs/c… #CIDconsortium

🔔New Preprint 🔔Have you read our latest paper based on our 100-day daily diary study? In this preprint, Nadia Bij de Vaate investigated the relationship between adolescents' social media self-presentation and their self-esteem. For the full paper: osf.io/preprints/psya…

📢Wanna join our research team? We are hiring a PhD candidate for the project 'Connected through Entertainment' 🤓 Application deadline: 13 December. For more info, visit: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

📌📢Super excited to share our latest preprint! Loes Janssen investigated patterns of parent-adolescent online communication over 100 days 👩‍👦👨‍👧. Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Patti Valkenburg presenting the special edition of the ASCoR | @[email protected] McQuail Award (and learned Photoshop at the expense of mariek vanden abeele)

Congrats to my former lecturer and colleague and my dear academic friend mariek vanden abeele for winning the ASCoR | @[email protected] McQuail Award!

In The Anxious Child, Jonathan Haidt suggests that: “There was little sign of an impending mental illness crisis among adolescents in the 2000s. Then, quite suddenly, in the early 2010s, things changed.” However, in my view, CDC data tells a different story. 🧵 #MentalHealthcrisis

On my way to give a keynote on the person-specific impact of social media on adolescent mental health at the Princeton Precision Health Princeton University Tech & Mental Health symposium.

📚Discover the ASCoR 25 book! Chapter 14: 'Person-Specific Media Effects' by Patti Valkenburg, Ine Beyens, Nadia Bij de Vaate, @lhcjanssenand Amber van der Wal✨See link and description in the comments👇

Onderzoek van @Teun_Siebers bevestigt: jongeren ervaren meer afleiding en slechtere slaap door overmatig gebruik van social media en games op smartphones. Met 82% van hen die zich sneller afgeleid voelen en 77% meer afleiding bij gefragmenteerd gebruik. go.uva.nl/43ZpJOI

Tomorrow at 16:00, Teun Siebers will defend his dissertation on the effects of smartphones and social media on distraction, task delay, and sleep. Looking forward to it! uva.nl/content/nieuws…

📢📜'' In their own words'' Amber van der Wal, Patti Valkenburg, and Irene I. van Driel Employed a qualitative methodology to explore social media usage among teenagers and its impacts on them. 👉doi.org/10.1177/205630…

🎓Seminar Stanford University🎓 Last week, I delivered a seminar at Cyber Policy Center about the role of social media use in the decline of youth mental health, moderated by Jeff Hancock. It is now online... 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=5GUwKC…

Excited to announce the release of our Project AWeSome public report covering teens' perspectives about the benefits and drawbacks of social media.

Excited to join the EU COST Action "Digital Mental Health for Young People"! Looking forward to contributing to this network enhancing research on the use of technology to support youth mental health.

Kan ik gelukkiger worden door mijn smartphone weg te doen? In de rubriek Blees heeft een idee de Volkskrant deel ik mijn inzichten en tips! #DigitalDetox volkskrant.nl/ts-bd08b5c8/

New Project AWeSome publication with Patti Valkenburg and Loes Keijsers in Meta-Psychology. We share our insights and recommendations for investigating heterogeneity in (social) media effects. #OpenAccess

Vandaag in de Volkskrant leg ik uit hoe Instagramposts jongeren kunnen inspireren om als digital nomad te leven, maar dat de werkelijkheid vaak afwijkt van het perfecte Instagramplaatje. volkskrant.nl/ts-b6f53eea/