Project Grant R21MH145224
- 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...
- 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 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 Pittsburgh $840,321 for a five-year Project Grant (R01MH145219) beginning September 1, 2026, to investigate the relationship between digital media use and social anxiety in adolescents under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The recipient will conduct a longitudinal study enrolling 175 adolescents ages 13–17 with varying levels of social anxiety to examine how digital experiences of social threat and...
- 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 West Virginia University $344,250 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct Project SOCIAL, an experimental intervention study targeting adolescents' social media use and in-person social interactions. The study enrolls 400 tenth-grade students in a three-week protocol combining daily brief reports and phone tracking. Week one establishes baselines for conversation frequency and social media use....
- 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...
- 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 awarded the Regents of the University of Minnesota $410,800 on August 17, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and test the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) application, a personalized intervention designed to help adolescents with depression regulate problematic social media use. The research builds on qualitative studies identifying the "runaway train" effect—a pattern in which algorithmic content...
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 connection and reduce mental health risks among early adolescents ages 12 to 14 years. The study integrates physiological tools, ecological momentary assessment, and community-based participatory research to examine the interplay between neurodevelopmental sensitivity to social cues and social media use during a critical developmental period marked by rapid socio-emotional changes and heightened vulnerability to stress-related disorders including depression and anxiety. Performance extends from August 20, 2026, through August 19, 2028, with work conducted in Newark, New Jersey. The project addresses the gap in research understanding how new social media users in early adolescence engage with digital platforms to navigate peer relationships and promote well-being, particularly as 95 percent of adolescents have smartphone access and 96 percent use the internet daily.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $431.8k | 8/19/26 |