Publications

Below you will find an overview of our preprints and published papers.

Curious about which project data and variables were used for each paper?

You can find an overview here.

Preprints

• Verbeij, T., Beyens, I., Trilling, D., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2022, December 15). Happiness and sadness in adolescents’ Instagram Direct Messaging: A neural topic modelling approach. Psyarxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5pgdb

• van der Wal, A., Valkenburg, P. M., & van Driel, I. I. (2022, October 28). In their own words: How adolescents differ in their social media use and how it affects them. Psyarxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mvrpn

• Meier, A., Beyens, I., Siebers, T., Pouwels, J., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2022, August 26). Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to procrastination for some, but not all, adolescents. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y9fuv

• Valkenburg, P. M., Beyens, I., van Driel, I. I., & Keijsers, L. (2022). How to assess variation in the association between social media use and well-being: A reply to Johannes, Masur, Vuorre, & Przybylski (2021). Psyarxiv.   https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rwc73

Published papers and in press

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03844-y
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2022.2109608
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101357
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11510-3
• Beyens, I., Keijsers, L. Coyne, S. (2022). Social media, parenting and wellbeing.  Current Opinion in Psychology, 47.101350.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101350
• 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.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101351
• 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.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.12.006

• 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.   https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211065425.
• 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.   https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502211038196
  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. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmab015
  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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.017
• 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].  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99034-0
  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.   http://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001148
  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 https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2021.1959350
  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). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000037
  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.  http://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa039.
  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.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2021.100090
  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]. http://doi.org//10.1038/s41598-020-67727-7.
  Preregistration, code, dataset and codebook
• van Driel, I. I., Pouwels, J. L., Beyens, I., Keijsers, L.& Valkenburg, P. M. (2019). Posting, scrolling, chatting and snapping: Youth (14-15) and social media in 2019. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Center for Research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media (CcaM). Available here.
  Preregistration and code available here