This Project Grant award of $1,086,194 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, aims to study the mechanisms by which adolescents' social media use impacts their risk for internalizing symptoms like depression and anxiety. The primary research objectives are to: 1) Identify specific social media experiences that increase adolescents' risk for subsequent internalizing symptoms using an experimental eye-tracking paradigm;...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,937,629.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a 2-year longitudinal mixed-method study on adolescents' social media management strategies, their impact on actual social media use, and the bidirectional relationship with mental health outcomes. The study will involve a national sample of 400 adolescents aged 13-17, with a preliminary phase of 100 participants and a...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $602,171 to conduct a longitudinal study on the bidirectional relationship between social media content and internalizing symptoms in adolescents aged 13-20 years old. The 5-year study (Sep 2024 - Jun 2029) aims to triangulate ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data with text and metadata from the participants' smartphones to model how...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $2,821,841 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Irvine to conduct real-time and randomized tests of the interplay between social media use and mental health in early adolescence. The research aims to: (1) advance discovery related to bi-directional influences between social media and mental health, (2) test whether experimental modifications to social media engagement impact...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the amount of $837,718. The grant, awarded on Sep 2, 2024 with an ultimate completion date of Sep 1, 2026, will fund a longitudinal observational study examining the bidirectional influences of adolescents' social media activity and individual characteristics on depressive symptoms and body dissatisfaction,...
This federal Project Grant award of $700,708.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support research to understand the bidirectional relationship between adolescents' online engagement and their mental and behavioral health. The project, titled "Online and Offline Multiverse Spillover: Mapping the Ecology of Youth Mental Health," will recruit 450 adolescents aged 13-15, including an overrepresentation of...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Rutgers, The State University. The $469,159 grant, with a start date of Sep 11, 2024 and an end date of Sep 10, 2026, will fund a research study examining the bidirectional relationships between positive and negative social media use and suicidal ideation among high-risk adolescents. The study will use intensive monitoring approaches, including smartphone...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, provides $427,625.00 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award supports a longitudinal study examining how early adolescent social media use relates to body image concerns, with a focus on visual attention biases to self-focused digital content and the role of parental influence. The study will collect objective data on adolescent...
This Project Grant award of $3,218,822.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants will fund a study to investigate social motivation as a risk factor linking childhood threat exposure and suicidal ideation and behavior in preteen girls. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct the research, which aims to: 1) refine assessments of social motivation and suicidal thoughts/behaviors for preteen girls, 2) test whether...
This Project Grant award, totaling $136,476 and provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports a research study examining the emotional effects of different types of social media use in adolescents. The study, conducted by researchers at Washington University, aims to investigate how distinct social media use activities, such as belief-based...
This Project Grant award of $1,041,082, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, will support a longitudinal study examining the relationships between preteen girls' mental health and their social media experiences. The study aims to assess whether factors like rejection sensitivity and puberty impact these relationships. The research will use multiple methods, including ecological momentary assessments, daily diaries, and neural indices, to capture social media engagement, online rejection experiences, and mental health over 3 annual assessments of 250 girls aged 10-11 at baseline. Northeastern University will lead the development and deployment of the mobile technology for data collection, while Saint Louis University will manage the overall project and contribute expertise in assessing puberty and rejection sensitivity. The findings from this innovative study could inform guidelines for healthier social media use and identify targets for future intervention, particularly for girls vulnerable to rejection and experiencing early puberty.