A new AWeSoMe study has been published by  Teun Siebers,     Ine Beyens, Amber van der Wal, Loes Keijsers and Patti Valkenburg on the link between social media use and stress among adolescents.

On a single day, this link turns out to be very small, but when looking across a week, two weeks, or a month, it becomes stronger. This pattern appears both in the averages and the individual level. 

It suggests that stress related to social media may build up gradually - the time frame you look at really matters!

Read the full study here.

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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 articles published in    Child Development in 2024.

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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 have been at the heart of our work. From preregistration and open materials to sharing code, data (where ethically possible), and transparent workflows, we have aimed not only to conduct rigorous research on social media and adolescent well-being, but also to contribute to improving how this research is done and making it reproducible for other researchers.

This award is a testament to the many people who have helped build Project AWeSoMe over the years.

So, a huge thank you to all current and former AWeSoMe members for your hard work and commitment to transparent and reproducible science.

And, of course, thank you to the Open Science Community Amsterdam for this wonderful recognition!

We would like to thank   Lara Varat for the nice photographs!

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📢 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 together with Amber van der Wal and Ine Beyens found that:

💚 Feeling supported by friends online → higher wellbeing, lower distress

💔 Feeling ignored by friends online → lower wellbeing, higher distress

Adolescents with elevated depressive symptoms showed amplified effects in both directions: more vulnerable to negative experiences, but also gaining more from positive ones.

For parents and clinicians, this highlights the value of open conversations: helping adolescents navigate their digital social world more purposefully, and in doing so, supporting their mental health.

Find the full article here and check out the LinkedIn post!

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