This study could lead to some debate in many households as it compares the self-esteem and social activities of teens with no or poor home Internet access to teens who are the heaviest users of screens as well as teens with parents who tightly control or limit their screen use. And the easy answer is:… Read More What is worst: disconnection or too much screentime?
For anybody who has learned about the system theory by Bronfenbrenner, this will not come as a surprise: Helping children become more ‘digitally resilient’ needs to be a collective effort if they are to learn how to “thrive online,” according to new research led by the University of East Anglia. From the press release: Digital… Read More Helping children become more ‘digitally resilient’ needs to be a collective effort
A new review study by Aviva Philipp-Muller and colleagues distinct four factors that are related to anti-science beliefs: thinking scientific sources lack credibility; identifying with groups that have anti-science attitudes; a scientific message that contradicts a person’s current beliefs; and a mismatch between how a message is presented and a person’s style of thinking. But… Read More The four factors of anti-science beliefs and how to use them
Yes, this post is about a study, although maybe you think the opposite while reading the title. But it’s true, according to research published by the American Psychological Association, people consistently underestimate how much they would enjoy spending time alone with their own thoughts, without anything to distract them. So put down the device you… Read More You underestimate how much you would enjoy spending time alone with your own thoughts
I hope I didn’t upset you with the title of this post, but this new study did examine a hypothesis close to what I wrote. Sometimes when we are reading a good book, we are transported into another world. I do hope you recognize this. I often stop paying attention to what’s around me when… Read More Is scrolling on social media just like reading a good book? Yes, and maybe that is a bad thing.
Earlier I posted a post about a study showing that limiting your smartphone use could benefit your mental wellbeing. This new study shows that taking a break from social media can also be a good idea once and a while. I wonder if that is always the case, e.g. it would mean some of my… Read More A study shows – again – how a social media break can improve mental health
This is an interesting new study by Dr. Julia Brailovskaia and her team, although some limitations are obvious. The researchers compared 3 groups to know how much less smartphone use per day is good for us. They compared: the effect of complete smartphone abstinence versus a reduction in time spent daily looking at the screen… Read More How much less smartphone use per day is good for us.
Michiel Walrave and colleagues published an interesting qualitative study in Frontiers on sharenting: Exploring Parents’ and Adolescents’ Sharenting Boundaries Through the Lens of Communication Privacy Management Theory (CPM): Specifically, CPM recognizes three general principles (i.e., “privacy ownership,” “privacy rules,” and “privacy turbulence”) to clarify the privacy-related choices individuals make when managing the disclosure of information… Read More Interesting new study: The Limits of Sharenting
This is a very interesting study by Amy Orben on how the impact of social media on wellbeing varies across adolescence. Do read on what the findings are, but first, read these important limitations: The study has multiple limitations that need to be considered. First, to interpret the parameters from our analyses as estimates of… Read More Impact of social media on wellbeing varies across adolescence
Sometimes it’s a bit of a strange situation that you find a new piece of research by someone you know through someone you know. I found this umbrella review by Patti Valkenburg via Dan Willingham. It’s a small world indeed. What is this preprint about? Research into the impact of social media use (SMU) on… Read More Interesting preprint: Social Media Use and Well-Being: What we Know and What We Need to Know
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