Yale Child Study Center Pilot Study Update
"Investigating Impacts of Social Media on Youth Mental Health"
This hybrid session, which will take place in the Cohen Auditorium with a live simulcast via Zoom, will be focused on four pilot studies launched this past fall by recipients of a new Social Media Research Award at Yale Child Study Center (YCSC). The award was made possible through a generous gift to the center and aims to advance the understanding of both positive and negative effects of social media on youth well-being and contribute to evidence-based recommendations for healthy social media use among children and adolescents. Session attendees will hear from the following awardees with updates on their respective projects, and light refreshments will be served. YCSC community members can find a link to the Zoom simulcast in the department's Outlook calendar.
Christine Cha, PhD and Shirley Wang, PhD: “Development of Digital Phenotypes to Distinguish Harmful from Helpful Moments of Social/Digital Media Use Across the Lifespan”
Rebecca Etkin, PhD: “Social Media and Social Anxiety: A Longitudinal and Ecologically-Valid Investigation of Bidirectional Effects”
Marc Potenza, MD, and Jennifer Park, PhD: “Network Analysis and Adolescent-Informed Strategies to Address Co-occurring Problematic Social Media Use and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder”
Karim Ibrahim, PsyD: “Is 'TikTok Brain' Real? Effects of Social Media Content on Attention, Impulse Inhibition and Emotion Regulation in Youth with and without ADHD”