Six interconnected studies — qualitative, longitudinal, experimental, and experience-based — exploring how digital media shapes young lives.
Focus group interviews with teenagers in Dutch secondary schools — in their own words, about effects, mechanisms, and their need for change.
Tracking 645 Dutch adolescents over two years to determine the temporal direction of associations between emotional problems and problematic use.
A laboratory study testing whether inhibitory control, reward sensitivity, and time perception explain the ADHD–digital media link.
An experimental study investigating whether sexualised social media content activates pornography-related urges, and whether meaningful content attenuates these effects.
A two-week smartphone study capturing how social media use and emotional states interact, moment to moment, in adolescents' and young adults' daily lives.
A five-wave study of 1830 Dutch adolescents tracking bidirectional associations between depression, anxiety, and self-perceived addiction over one year.