Publications

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., Beyens, I., Boeschoten, L., Araujo, T. (2024). It is time to ensure research access to platform data. Correspondence, 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. 28(3), zmad008.
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. 42, 29955–29968.
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. 16(4), 266–282.
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.
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. (2024). Social media use and adolescents’ well-being: Developing a typology of person-specific effect patterns. Communication Research. 51(6), 691-716. 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