Main description:

Digital media, including social media, has fundamentally changed how the human species communicates with, relates to, and influences one another. Adolescents use digital media extensively. Researchers, scholars, teachers, parents, and teens themselves have many questions about the effects of digital media on young people's psychological development. This handbook offers a comprehensive synthesis of scientific studies that explain what we know so far about digital media and its effects on youth mental health. With chapters from internationally renowned experts in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, media, and communications, the book offers a broad overview of the positive and negative implications of youths' engagement with digital media for brain development, relationships, identity exploration, daily behaviors, and psychological symptoms. Chapters include a discussion of the current state of knowledge, directions for future research, and practical suggestions for parents, educators, and teens themselves. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

1. Methodological and conceptual issues in digital media research Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Minas Michikyan; 2. Theoretical foundations of social media uses and effects Patti M. Valkenburg; 3. Digital media and the dual aspect of adolescent identity development: the effects of digital media use on adolescents' commitments and self-stories Hiromitsu Morita, Nastasia Griffioen and Isabela Granic; 4. Peer relations processes in the context of digital media Samuel E. Ehrenreich; 5. Digital media and the developing brain Michelle Chiu and Jason Chein; 6. Adolescents' digital media interactions within the context of sexuality development Chelly Maes, Johanna M. F. van Oosten and Laura Vandenbosch; 7. Culture and digital media in adolescent development Adriana M. Manago and Jessica McKenzie; 8. Marginalized and understudied populations using digital media Linda Charmaraman, J. Maya Hernandez and Rachel Hodes; 9. Depression and anxiety in the context of digital media Megan A. Moreno and Anna F. Jolliff; 10. The role of digital media in adolescents' body image and disordered eating Savannah R. Roberts, Anne J. Maheux, Brianna A. Ladd and Sophia Choukas-Bradley; 11. Digital media in adolescent health-risk and externalizing behaviors Michaeline Jensen, Mariani Weinstein, Morgan T. Brown and Jessica Navarro; 12. Problematic digital media use and addiction Sarah E. Domoff, Aubrey L. Borgen, Bonny Rye, Gloria Rojas Barajas and Katie Avery; 13. The effects of digital media and media multitasking on attention problems and sleep Susanne E. Baumgartner; 14. Digital media, suicide, and self-injury Kaylee Payne Kruzan and Janis Whitlock; 15. School-based initiatives promoting digital citizenship and healthy digital media use Emily Weinstein and Carrie James; 16. Digital media interventions for adolescent mental health Jessica L. Hamilton, David M. Siegel and Matthew M. Carper.