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Suicides in Adolescents—An Evolutionary Approach Based on Epigenetic Thinking
June 12, 2025 Suicide in adolescents has been known since ancient times. This vulnerable period of life is characterized by a bundle of...
The Impact of Technostress on Individuals: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Avenues
June 12, 2025 Technostress poses significant challenges for individuals, impacting well-being and performance. Recent literature explored...
JAMA: Early-Childhood Tablet Use and Outbursts of Anger
May 20, 2025 Key Points Question Do higher levels of early-childhood tablet use undermine emotional regulation or is it the other way...
THE GUARDIAN: Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
May 20, 2025 Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey. ...
TRENDS IN PSYCHOLOGY: Digital Psychology: Introducing a Conceptual Impact Model and the Future of Work
Apr. 21, 2025 There is a massive digital transformation occurring across our societies, which means that our lives are shifting more and...
THE LANCET: School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study
Apr. 16, 2025 Background Poor mental health in adolescents can negatively affect sleep, physical activity and academic performance, and...
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: Problematic social media use and relationship to mental health characteristics in youth from the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)
Apr. 16, 2025 Highlights Analyzes the link between social media use and mental health in depressed youth 40.3Â % reported problematic...
PNAS NEXUS: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being
Apr 15, 2025 Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time. Despite the benefits of this technology,...
BMC MEDICINE: Smartphone screen time reduction improves mental health: a randomized controlled trial
Apr 10, 2025 Christoph Pieh , Elke Humer , Andreas Hoenigl , Julia Schwab , Doris Mayerhofer , Rachel Dale & Katja Haider  Abstract...
NATURE MEDICINE: Prediction of mental health risk in adolescents
Apr 8, 2025 Prospective prediction of mental health risk in adolescence can facilitate early preventive interventions. Here, using...
News Medical: AI-POWERED THERAPY CHATBOT SHOWS SIGNIFICANT MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS
Apr 8, 2025 Dartmouth researchers conducted the first clinical trial of a therapy chatbot powered by generative AI and found that the...
Absencing as Attentional Violence and Its Impact on Well-Being
Mar. 23, 2025 Bianca Briciu School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity, Saint Paul University, Ottawa This paper analyzes the impact of...
MIXED FEELINGS: THE PLATFORMISATION OF MOODS AND VIBES
Mar. 19, 2025 By Ludmila Lupinacci, University of Leeds Over the past few years, digital platforms from different sectors have started...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Mar. 15, 2025 Social media presents a meaningful risk of harm to youth, while also providing benefits The types of use and content...
Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
Mar. 15, 2025 Key Points Question  Is adolescents’ frequency of checking behaviors on 3 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram,...
Surveillance Capitalism in Mental Health: When Good Apps Go Rogue (and What Can Be Done about It)
Mar. 3, 2025 Research shows that a large proportion of the world’s population has experience with mental health difficulties, and...
Weaponising Social Media, Mental Health and Surveillance Capitalism
Mar. 3, 2025 Individuals, executives lived experiences, and subjective information about every single action (ethical concern) you take...
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