Handbook of Adolescent Digital Media Use and Mental Health

• Main Authors: Nesi, Jacqueline, Telzer, Eva H, Prinstein, Mitchell J
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 30.06.2022
• Series: Social Sciences
• Subjects: Adolescent psychology; Child, developmental and lifespan psychology; Clinical psychology; developmental psychology; Digital media; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Industry and industrial studies; Internet and teenagers; Mass media and teenagers; MBNH9 Health psychology; Media, entertainment, information and communication industries; Medical specialties, branches of medicine; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; mental health treatment; Personal and public health / health education; Psychology; Public health and preventive medicine; Society and Social Sciences; technology and mental health; Teenagers
• DOI: 10.1017/9781108976237
• ISBN: 9781108838726; 1108972276; 1108838723; 9781108972277; 1108976239; 9781108976237

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.