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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DIGITAL ADDICTION: UMBRELLA REVIEW
Sept. 2025 Yun Han, Jiamin Qiu, Chengbin Shi, Shiqi Huang, Haokun Huang, Xinman Wang, Sui Zhu, Da-lin Lu, Peng Lu, Fangfang Zeng...


INTERNET ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY AND MEDIATION ANALYSIS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS WITH A PSYCHIATRIC MAJOR
Sept. 2025 Ying Lu, Yue Lu, Yu Tian, Yu Gan, Xiaolu Chen, Xiao Li Background: Internet Addiction (IA) has become a significant public...


ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EXCESSIVE INTERNET USE TIME, INTERNET ADDICTION, AND PHYSICAL-MENTAL MULTIMORBIDITY AMONG CHINESE ADOLESCENTS: CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Aug. 2025 Huiwen Gu; Bing Shi; Huanying He; Sumei Yuan; Jijiao Cai; Xiaofang Chen; Zhongxiao Wan Background: In contemporary society, the...


THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF IRRATIONAL BELIEFS CONCERNING BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS: THE RATIONAL EMOTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION SCALE FOR WORKERS
Aug. 2025 Murat Artiran Pinar Tinaz Ömer Faruk Simsek Anthony Miller Katia Correa Vione Martin James Turner Introduction: Recently a new...


CONSUMPTION, RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND MENTAL HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM HEDONIC CONSUMPTION
Aug. 2025 Hao Li Weihong Zeng Introduction: In recent years, relative deprivation related to consumption has sparked intense debate,...


A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIAL MEDIA ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
Sept. 2025 Dinesh Deckker 1 , Subhashini Sumanasekara 2 1 Wrexham University, United Kingdom 2 University of Gloucestershire, United...


BALANCING PROMISE AND CONCERN IN AI THERAPY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON EARLY EVIDENCE FROM THE MIT–OPENAI RCT
Sept. 2025 The emergence of AI therapy chatbots has the potential to reduce the widening gap between the huge demand for psychological...


PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL MEDIA USE IS ASSOCIATED WITH BELIEVING IN AND ENGAGING WITH FAKE NEWS
Aug. 2025 Dar Meshi , Maria D. Molina Social media use is ubiquitous in our modern society, and some individuals display excessive,...


SOCIAL MEDIA AND MENTAL HEALTH
Aug. 2025 Luca Braghieri Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences Ro'ee Levy Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of...


YOUNG PEOPLE’S SELF-MAKING IN NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Aug. 2025 This paper charts the development of young people’s self-making in neoliberal capitalism, specifying relationships between...


LEVERAGING GENERATIVE AI TO SIMULATE MENTAL HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND UTILIZATION
Aug., 2025 Purpose This article examines how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can simulate, analyze, and enhance mental health...


ANXIOUS? DEPRESSED? YOU MIGHT BE SUFFERING FROM CAPITALISM: CONTRADICTORY CLASS LOCATIONS AND THE PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN THE UNITED STATES
Aug. 2015 Despite a well-established social gradient for many mental disorders, evidence suggests that individuals near the middle of the...


STANFORD UNIVERSITY: EXPLORING THE DANGERS OF AI IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Aug. 30, 2025 Across different chatbots, the AI showed increased stigma toward conditions such as alcohol dependence and schizophrenia...


MENTAL HEALTH IN THE “ERA” OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: TECHNOSTRESS AND THE PERCEIVED IMPACT ON ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS—AN SEM ANALYSIS
Aug. 26, 2025 Introduction The aim of the current study is to analyze the relationship between mental health and the accelerated...


EXAMINING THE MENTAL HEALTH IMPACT OF MISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA USING A HYBRID TRANSFORMER-BASED APPROACH
Aug. 26, 2025 Social media has significantly reshaped interpersonal communication, fostering connectivity while also enabling the...


THE ROLE OF AI IN PEER SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: A STUDY OF PREFERENCES FOR HUMAN- AND AI-GENERATED RESPONSES
Aug. 26, 2025 Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is integrated into everyday technology, including news, education, and social...


NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL MAZE: A REVIEW OF AI BIAS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND MENTAL HEALTH IN GENERATION Z
Aug. 26, 2025 The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) within social media platforms has fundamentally transformed the way...


ADDICTIVE SCREEN USE TRAJECTORIES AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIORS, SUICIDAL IDEATION, AND MENTAL HEALTH IN US YOUTHS
Aug. 25, 2025 Abstract Background Smartphone screen time has risen sharply in recent years. Even though an association between smartphone...


A RISK TAXONOMY FOR EVALUATING AI-POWERED PSYCHOTHERAPY AGENTS
Aug. 24, 2025 The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Intelligent Virtual Agents acting as psychotherapists presents...


TRUSTWORTHY AI PSYCHOTHERAPY: MULTI-AGENT LLM WORKFLOW FOR COUNSELING AND EXPLAINABLE MENTAL DISORDER DIAGNOSIS
Aug. 24, 2025 LLM-based agents have emerged as transformative tools capable of executing complex tasks through iterative planning and...
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