This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) will provide $2,821,841 to the University of California, Irvine to conduct a 4-year study on the interplay between social media use and mental health in early adolescence. The research aims to: Advance discovery related to bi-directional influences between social media engagement and mental health symptoms in 11-15 year olds. Experimentally test whether restricting or scaffolding...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding of $837,718, was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The grant will support a 2-year longitudinal study (September 2024 to September 2026) examining the bidirectional influences of adolescents' social media activity and individual characteristics on their depressive symptoms and body dissatisfaction, through the lens of social comparison theory. The study, to be...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a longitudinal study examining the relationships between preteen girls' mental health and their social media experiences. The $1,041,082 award will fund a 5-year study recruiting 250 girls ages 10-11 to assess their mental health, social media use, rejection sensitivity, and pubertal development over three annual assessments. The study aims...
This 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 conduct a longitudinal study on how adolescents' social media use and beliefs contribute to the development of internalizing symptoms like depression and anxiety. The study, led by Rhode Island Hospital, will recruit 200 youth aged 13-16 and use an online experimental eye-tracking task to identify social media experiences that...
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 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 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $846,738 to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to conduct a longitudinal study on the relationships between social media content and suicidality among transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) adolescents. The study will use a digital "photovoice" method, where participants will capture screenshots of social media content,...
This federal 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 Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to conduct a longitudinal study on the bidirectional relationship between vulnerability to internalizing symptoms in youth aged 13-20 and social media content. The key products or services to be delivered under this grant include: (1) using ecological...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $606,480.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research examining the impact of social media use on the mental health and academic achievements of adolescents. The research team at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will conduct an experimental study, randomly assigning adolescents to a treatment group that receives incentives to reduce social...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,937,629 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct a 2-year longitudinal 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 utilize a mixed-method approach, including daily diary reports, phone screen captures, baseline/end-of-epoch surveys, and semi-structured interviews with a national sample of 400 adolescents aged 13-17. This highly innovative project aims to provide critical insights into how adolescents regulate their social media use and how these strategies and social media usage patterns influence mental health. The University of Minnesota has also issued a $313,461 sub-award to Stanford University to collaborate on certain aspects of the research.