Abstract
One of the key challenges faced by many parents is to manage the pervasiveness of social media in adolescents' lives and its effects on adolescents' well-being (e.g., life satisfaction) and ill-being (e.g., depressive symptoms). Parents may manage adolescents' social media use and social media-induced well-being and ill-being through media-specific parenting: parental actions to restrict, regulate, and discuss adolescents' social media use. Recent evidence suggests that media-specific parenting may reduce adolescents' anxiety and depressive symptoms and minimize the effects of cyberbullying on adolescents' depressive symptoms. However, more robust evidence regarding the moderating role of media-specific parenting and the direction of effects has to be established to understand how parents may shape the effects of social media on adolescents’ well-being and ill-being.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 101350 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Psychology |
| Volume | 47 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was funded by an NWO Gravitation grant (NWO Grant 024.001.003; Consortium on Individual Development) of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and by an NWO VIDI grant (NWO VIDI Grant 452.17.011) awarded to Loes Keijsers by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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