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Publications

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On this page, you can find an overview of our preprints, published articles and book chapters, reports and webinars.

Preprints

  •  Godard, R., van der Wal, A., & Beyens, I. (2026). How does social media make adolescents lonely? Social capital and social comparison as heterogeneous within-person mediators. Preprint available online:   https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pkh69_v1
  • van der Wal, A., Vondenhof, I., Mikalauskas, K., Godard, R., Zioni, K., Loecherbach, F., & Beyens, I. (2025, April, 30). What’s on their For You Page? A large-scale computational approach to analyzing adolescents’ TikTok archives through hashtag topic modeling. Preprint available online:    https://osf.io/q3huc/files/bsk83
  • Siebers, T., Beyens, I., Keijsers, L., Valkenburg, P. M., & van der Wal, A. (2025, August 7). From days to months: The effect of social media use on stress among adolescents accumulates over time. Preprint available online: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7erbm_v1

 

Published papers and in press

  • Janssen, L., van der Wal, A., & Beyens, I. (2026). Depressive symptoms amplify the impact of feeling supported or ignored online by friends on adolescents’ well- and Ill-being.   Development and Psychopathology.
  • Rainer, E., van der Wal, A., & Beyens, I. (2026). Portrayals of depression on TikTok: Content analysis of diagnostic accuracy, creator type, and stylistic features. JMIR Infodemiology.
  • van der Wal, A., Beyens, I., Janssen, L. H. C., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2026). Diverse platforms, diverse effects: Evidence from a 100-day study on social media and adolescent mental health. Current Psychology.
  • Siebers, T., Beyens, I., Baumgartner, S., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2026). Adolescents' digital nightlife: The comparative effects of day- and nighttime smartphone use on sleep quality. Communication Research.
  • Xiong, Y., van der Wal, A., & Beyens, I. (2025). Improving participation in data donation studies: A systematic review of factors driving participation and evidence-informed best practices. Social Science Computer Review.
  • Janssen, L. H. C., Valkenburg, P. M., Keijsers, L., & Beyens, I. (2025). A harsher reality for adolescents with depression on social media. Scientific Reports.
  • Janssen, L. H. C., Beyens, I., Bij de Vaate, N. A., van der Wal, A., Valkenburg, P. M., & Keijsers, L. (2025). Parent-adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100-Day diary study. Child Development.
  • Pouwels, J., Beyens, I., Keijsers, L., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2025). Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents’ social media use on psychosocial functioning. Child Development.  
  • Valkenburg, P.M., van der Wal, A., Siebers, T., Beyens, I., Boeschoten, L., Araujo, T.  (2024). It is time to ensure research access to platform data. Correspondence,   Nature Human Behaviour.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pouwels, J.L., Araujo, T., van Atteveldt, W., Bachl, W., Valkenburg, P.M. (2024). Integrating communication science and computational methods to study content-based social media effects. Communication Methods and Measures.
  • Siebers, T., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2023).  The effects of fragmented and sticky smartphone use on distraction and task delay. Mobile Media & Communication.
  • Valkenburg, P. M., Beyens, I. & Keijsers, L. (2024). Investigating heterogeneity in (social) media effects: Experienced-based recommendations. Meta-Psychology.
  • 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.
  • Beyens, I., Keijsers, L. Coyne, S. (2022). Social media, parenting and wellbeing. Current Opinion in Psychology.
  • 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.
  • Valkenburg, P. M. (2022). Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know. Current Opinion in Psychology.
  • Verbeij, T., Pouwels, J. L., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2022). Experience sampling self‑reports of social media use have comparable predictive validity to digital trace measures.   Scientific Reports.
  • Siebers, T., Beyens, I., Pouwels, J.L. & Valkenburg, P.M. (2022). Social media and distraction: An experience sampling study among adolescents. Media Psychology.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Valkenburg, P. M., van Driel, I. I., & Beyens, I. (2021). The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review. New Media and Society.
  • 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.   
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • 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.
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This project is funded
by a NWO Spinoza Prize awarded to Patti Valkenburg

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