Description: Project AWeSome aims to investigate questions about the relationship between adolescents’ social media use and their well-being.
The New York Times wrote an article on how everyone says social media is bad for adolescents, but so far there is little research proving that social media directly causes harmful outcomes. Project AWeSome's research on adolescents'social media use is…
Members of Project AWeSome (Adolescents, Well-being, and Social media) interviewed 480 adolescents aged 14 to 17 about the pros and cons of social media, relying on a survey study and qualitative interviews. For most adolescents, the pros of social media…
Team AWeSome I (2018-2021)—Ine Beyens, Loes Keijsers, Loes Pouwels, Irene van Driel, and Patti Valkenburg—received the Innovation Award for Method from ICA’s Mass Comm Division. The award was granted for their introduction of Dynamic Structural Equation…