Project Grant F31MH139239
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $431,750 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Division on August 20, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate social media behaviors that generate social connections and mitigate distress in early adolescence. The recipient will conduct a multimodal research investigation examining how approach-oriented social media behaviors—such as reacting to and sharing content with peers—foster social...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $393,750 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on September 1, 2026, to investigate bidirectional influences between social media use and adolescent depression through analysis of frontoparietal network connectivity. The research leverages five waves of longitudinal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (N>10,000, ages 13–18) to examine associations among...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. $405,505 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate how daily social media engagement influences mood and coping among socially disconnected adolescents in rural and low-resource areas. The research comprises two stages. Stage 1 will collect one month of passive mobile-use data from 20 rural adolescents ages 13–17 to derive preliminary...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded $3.63 million under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research to investigate the bidirectional relationship between adolescent social media exposure and mental health outcomes. The four-year project, initiated September 10, 2025 and concluding September 9, 2029, will deliver a longitudinal research study tracking 2,000 adolescents aged 13-16...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $427,625 on August 15, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate the relationship between social media use, rejection sensitivity, and depression in female adolescents. The research examines how social media characteristics—including network features and positive or negative online experiences—and endocrine contexts affect rejection sensitivity and depressive...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $747,342 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct an examination of social connection in suicide risk during the college transition. The project leverages multimodal, high-resolution assessments to elucidate how social connection across digital and physical contexts contributes to suicide risk during the transition to college. The research will collect...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The McLean Hospital Corporation $193,320 on February 18, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242, Assistance Listing) to support a K23 mentored career development award focused on online social networking mechanisms of suicide in adolescents. The award funds research establishing objective, ecologically valid assessment of interpersonal behavior in adolescents with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBS) through analysis...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Trustees of Dartmouth College $2.366 million on September 11, 2025, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate the transmission of suicidal thoughts and behaviors among young adults on social media platforms. The research models suicide transmission dynamics on Twitter/X and Reddit using computational social science, Natural Language Processing, dynamic social network analysis, and ecological momentary...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded $913,000 in Project Grant funding (CFDA 93.242: Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The research project, titled "Social Media Concerns Related to Emotional Experience in Naturalistic Settings: SCREENS," responds to RFA-MH-25-206 (Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Rutgers, The State University $149,190 on August 20, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and pilot a multi-informant, self-report measure characterizing direct and indirect suicide-related disclosure in adolescents and their caregivers. The project will refine a preliminary assessment tool and conduct qualitative research with parent-adolescent dyads recruited from a psychiatric inpatient unit following...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Rutgers, The State University $100,228 on November 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to examine the short-term effects of adolescent social media experiences on suicidal ideation, with particular focus on the roles of identity exploration and functioning. The award supports research investigating how identity exploration during social media use may affect suicide risk in adolescents. The project addresses a gap in longitudinal research on dynamic, developmentally salient processes underlying suicidal thoughts during adolescence. Social media's unique features—including public content sharing and quantifiable social feedback—may amplify the effects of identity exploration experiences on psychopathology relative to offline identity exploration. The study will examine proximal relationships between both positive and negative social media identity exploration experiences and suicidal ideation, treating identity functioning as a transdiagnostic construct linked to suicide risk. Performance occurs in Piscataway, New Jersey. The period of performance runs from November 1, 2026, through June 30, 2028.
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