Webinar: Luisa Fassi, University of Cambridge

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Zoom

Themen: Social media use, adolescent mental health in clinical and non-clinical populations 

Anmeldung: https://umfragenup.uni-potsdam.de/educationforthefuture_webinar/

Mental health conditions affect approximately one in seven young people worldwide, while social media has become embedded in adolescents` everyday lives. Understanding how these intersect- particularly fort he growing number of xoung people with mental health conditions- is therefore of clinical and societal importance. Yet, existing evidence remains fragmented and inconclusive. In this talk, I will present findings from three complementary studies that address key gaps in the literature. First, I will report results from a systematic review and metaanalysis synthesising 15 years of research on the association between social media use and internalising symptoms across community and clinical samples, highlighting limitations in study populations, measuremen, and design. Second, I will present findings from registered report using a nationally representative UK survey to examine differences in social media use between adolescents with and without mental health conditions, drawing on diagnoses derived from multi-informant clinical interviews rather than questionnaires. Finally, I will introduce a novel outpatient-clinical study linking adolescents`real-world TikTok and Instagram data with mental health and cognitive assessments, outlining the study protocol and sharing early results. Together, these studies illustrate how integrating evidence synthesis, clinical diagnosticdata and real-world digital trace data can advance understanding and inform more effective responses.