Below you will find an overview of our preprints and published papers.
Preprints
- Janssen, L. H. C., Valkenburg, P. M., Keijsers, L., & Beyens, I. (2024). Social Media: A Harsher Reality for Adolescents with Depression. Psyarxiv.
- van der Wal, A., Beyens, I., Janssen, L. H. C., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2024, August 14). Social media use leads to negative mental health outcomes for most adolescents. Psyarxiv.
Published papers and in press
- Valkenburg, P.M., van der Wal, A., Siebers, T., Beyen, I., Boeschoten, L., Araujo, T. (2024). It is time to ensure research access to platform data. Nature Human Behaviour.
- Janssen, L. H. C., Beyens, I., Bij de Vaate, N. A., van der Wal, A., Valkenburg, P. M., & Keijsers, L. (2024). Parent-adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100-Day diary study. Child Development.
- Pouwels, J., Beyens, I., Keijsers, L., & Valkenburg, P. M. (in press). Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents’ social media use on psychosocial functioning. Child Development.
- Siebers, T., Beyens, I., Baumgartner, S., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2024). Adolescents' digital nightlife: The comparative effects of day- and nighttime smartphone use on sleep quality. Communication Research. 0 (0).
- van der Wal, A., Valkenburg, P. M., & van Driel, I. I. (2024). In their own words: How adolescents differ in their social media use and how it affects them. Social Media + Society. 10(2), 1-11.
- Verbeij, T., Beyens, I., Trilling, D., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2024). Happiness and sadness in adolescents’ Instagram Direct Messaging: A neural topic modelling approach. Social Media + Society. 20 (5), 1813-1831.
- Beyens, I., Keijsers, L., Valkenburg, P.M. (2024) Development, validity, and reliability of the Parent-Adolescent Communication About Adolescents’ Social Media Use Scale (PACAS). Journal of Children and Media.18(2), 159-177.
- Pouwels, J.L., Araujo, T., van Atteveldt, W., Bachl, W., Valkenburg, P.M. (2023). Integrating communication science and computational methods to study content-based social media effects. Communication Methods and Measures.18(2), 115–123.
- Valkenburg, P. M., Beyens, I. & Keijsers, L. (2024). Investigating heterogeneity in (social) media effects: Experienced-based recommendations. Meta-Psychology. 8, MP.2022.3649.
- Siebers, T., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2023). The effects of fragmented and sticky smartphone use on distraction and task delay. Mobile Media & Communication. 12 (1), 46-70.
- Meier, A., Beyens, I., Siebers, T., Pouwels, J., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2023). Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to procrastination for some, but not all, adolescents. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
- Siebers, T., Beyens, I., Pouwels, J.L., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2022). Explaining variation in adolescents' social media-related distraction: The role of social connectivity and disconnectivity factors. Current Psychology.
- van Driel, I. I., Giachanou, A., Pouwels, J.L., Boeschoten, L., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2022). Promises and pitfalls of Instagram data donations. Communication Methods and Measures.
- Valkenburg, P. M., Beyens, I., Meier, A., & Vanden Abeele, M. M. P. (2022). Advancing our understanding of the associations between social media use and well-being. Current Opinion in Psychology, 45, 101357.
- Verbeij, T., Pouwels, J. L., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2022). Self-reported measures of social media use show high predictive validity. Scientific Reports, 12, 7611.
- Beyens, I., Keijsers, L. Coyne, S. (2022). Social media, parenting and wellbeing. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47.101350.
- Pouwels, J. L., Keijsers, L., & Odgers, C. (2022). Who benefits most from using social media, the socially rich or the socially poor. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, 101351.
- Valkenburg, P. M. (2022). Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know. Current Opinion in Psychology, 45, 101294.
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Valkenburg, P. M., van Driel, I. I., & Beyens, I. (2022). The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review. New Media and Society, 24 (2), 530-549. Beyens, I., Pouwels, J. L., van Driel, I. I., Keijsers, L., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2021). Social media use and adolescents’ well-being: Developing a typology of person-specific effect patterns. Communication Research. Preregistration, code, dataset and codebook
- Valkenburg, P.M., Beyens, I., Pouwels, J.L., van Driel, I.I., & Keijsers, L. (2022). Social media browsing and adolescent well-being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27, 1.
Preregistration and dataset - Valkenburg, P. M., Meier, A., & Beyens, I. (2022). Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence. Current Opinion in Psychology. 44, 58-68.
- Pouwels, J. L., Valkenburg, P.M., Beyens, I., Driel, I.I., & Keijsers, L. (2021).Some socially poor but also some socially rich adolescents feel closer to their friends after using social media. Scientific Reports , 11 [21176].
Preregistration, code and dataset - Pouwels, J. L., Valkenburg, P.M., Beyens, I., Driel, I.I., & Keijsers, L. (2021). Social media use and friendship closeness in adolescents' daily lives: An experience sampling study. Developmental Psychology, 57(2), 309-323.
Preregistration, code and dataset - Siebers, T., Beyens, I., Pouwels, J.L. & Valkenburg, P.M. (2022). Social media and distraction: An experience sampling study among adolescents. Media Psychology. 25:3, 343-366.
Preregistration, code, dataset and codebook - Valkenburg, P. M., Pouwels, J., Beyens, I., van Driel, I. I., & Keijsers, L. (2021). Adolescents’ social media experiences and their self-esteem: A person-specific susceptibility perspective. Technology, Mind, & Behavior, 2(2).
Preregistration, code, dataset and codebook - Valkenburg, P. M., Beyens, I., Pouwels, J. L., van Driel, I. I. & Keijsers, L. (2021). Social media and adolescents’ self-esteem: Heading for a person-specific media effects paradigm. Journal of Communication, 71(1), 56-78.
Preregistration, code, dataset and codebook - Verbeij, T., Pouwels, J.L., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2021). The accuracy and validity of self-reported social media use measures among adolescents. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 3.
Preregistration, code, dataset and codebook - Beyens, I., Pouwels, J. L., van Driel, I. I., Keijsers, L., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2020). The effect of social media on well-being differs from adolescent to adolescent. Scientific Reports, 10 [10763].
Preregistration, code, dataset and codebook