Why is it that social media use makes some adolescents feel happy while leaving others feeling blue? Project AWeSome stands for Adolescents, Well-being & Social Media. It aims to investigate questions about the relationship between adolescents’ social media use and their well-being.
We investigate these questions through experience sampling studies (AWeSome I) and via a 100-day diary study (AWeSome II).
Project AWeSome is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Universities of Amsterdam and Erasmus University in Rotterdam that launched in Fall 2018. The project AWeSome team consists of UvA researchers Patti Valkenburg, Ine Beyens, Amber van der Wal, Nadia Bij De Vaate, Loes Janssen, Teun Siebers, and Tim Verbeij together with Loes Keijsers of Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
The positive connotation of Project AWeSome is meant to emphasize the potential helpful impact that the result of the project may have on parents, teachers, policy makers, and, last but not least, adolescents themselves.
