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 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 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $600,000 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a longitudinal study examining psychosocial predictors of suicidal behavior risk among gender minority adolescents (GMAs). The study aims to identify how general stressors and unique psychosocial experiences, such as gender transition steps and minority stress, predict changes in risk factors for suicidal behavior over...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $2,821,841 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Irvine on September 16, 2024. The grant will fund a 5-year research project to study the bi-directional relationship between social media use and mental health in early adolescence. The project will capture daily, weekly, and yearly mental health symptoms and social media engagement for a large, representative sample of 2,500 11- to...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) totaling $1,041,082 to Washington University to conduct a 5-year longitudinal study on the relationship between preteen girls' mental health and their social media experiences. The study will recruit a community sample of 250 girls, ages 10-11 years at baseline, to assess their mental health, social media use, rejection sensitivity, and hormone levels over three annual assessments...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $837,718 to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to conduct a longitudinal observational study examining the bidirectional influences of adolescents' social media activity and individual characteristics on depressive symptoms and body dissatisfaction. The study aims to 1) characterize social media activities that prompt...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Vanderbilt University for $1,303,830 on September 1, 2024. The goal of this 18-month project is to address key knowledge gaps in research on sexual and gender minority (SGM) preteens, who experience up to 14 times higher risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors compared to their heterosexual, cisgender peers. The project will: 1) develop consensus among...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $1,086,194 to Rhode Island Hospital to conduct a longitudinal study examining the mechanisms by which adolescents' social media use and beliefs impact their risk for internalizing symptoms like depression and anxiety. The study will recruit 200 youth ages 13-16 and utilize an online experimental task with eye-tracking to identify social...
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...
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 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA Program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, will support a study to explore the relationships between social media content and suicidality among transgender adolescents. The $846,738 award will fund a prospective, longitudinal study that uses a "digital photovoice" approach to understand how emotionally-laden social media content consumed by transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) adolescents ages 15-20 is associated with suicidality. The study will utilize a custom "Screen, Tag, and React" (S.T.A.R.) mobile app to capture TGNB participants' real-time reactions to social media content over 16 weeks, followed by interviews to further explore the connections. The research aims to develop predictive models mapping social media content and related emotions to suicidality in this vulnerable population. The grant was awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a major public research institution, and will be conducted from September 2024 through March 2025.