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Fenna van Loenhout from Nu.nl spoke with Project AWeSoMe post-doctoral researcher Rebecca Godrad about harmful content on the TikTok feeds of Dutch adolescents. Preliminary findings suggest that nearly all youth from a community-based sample encounter…

We are very proud that Project AWeSoMe has been awarded an Open Science Community Amsterdam (OSCA) Award in the category “Transparency / Metascience / Preregistration / Reproducibility” 🏆 Since the founding of AWeSoMe in 2018, Open Science principles…

Project AWeSoMe is proud to share that the article Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents' social media use on psychosocial functioning by Loes Pouwels, Ine Beyens, Loes Keijsers, and Patti Valkenburg has ranked within the top 10% most-viewed…

📢 Project AWeSoMe celebrates a new publication! 📢 Teenagers spend a lot of time communicating with friends online, but how do those interactions actually affect their wellbeing? In a preregistered 100-day diary study with 479 adolescents, Loes Janssen…

Youths are increasingly turning to TikTok for mental health information, making the platform an important space where young people encounter portrayals of mental illness. Through a content analysis of 210 TikTok videos, the study examined how…

How does using social media relate to feeling lonely, and why do some adolescents seem to be more affected than others? A new study by Rebecca Godard, Amber van der Wal, and Ine Beyens sheds light on these questions using intensive, real‑time data from…