Prospective Association of Digital Media Use with Alcohol Use Initiation and Progression Among Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira E. Riehm ◽  
Johannes Thrul ◽  
Jessica L. Barrington‐Trimis ◽  
Annemarie Kelleghan ◽  
Ramin Mojtabai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Prospective Association ◽  
Alcohol Use Initiation

How Specific is Alcohol-Specific Self-Control? A Longitudinal Study of the Mediating Role of Alcohol-Specific Self-Control in the Relation between General Self-Control and Adolescent Alcohol Use

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Geurts ◽  
Ina Koning ◽  
Catrin Finkenauer
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Adolescent Alcohol Use ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Adolescent Alcohol ◽  
Dutch Study

Abstract Background: Although accumulating studies indicate that alcohol-specific self-control can be useful in predicting adolescent alcohol use, little is known about its specificity. This longitudinal study aimed to advance our understanding of domain-specific self-control by examining whether alcohol-specific self-control mediates the effect of general self-control on adolescent alcohol use or has generalizing effects by also mediating the effect of general self-control on other behavior requiring self-control (adolescent digital media use and smoking).Methods: Data from 906 adolescents aged 11-14 years who were enrolled in the Dutch study Prevention of Alcohol Use in Students were used. Data were collected using online questionnaires at four annual measurements. Results: Structural equation modelling revealed that higher alcohol-specific self-control fully mediated the effect of higher general self-control on alcohol use. Alcohol-specific self-control did not mediate the effect of higher general self-control on digital media use, but did partially mediate the effect of higher general self-control on smoking. Conclusions: These results suggest that alcohol-specific self-control is domain-specific, but not necessarily substance-specific. The domain-specificity of alcohol-specific self-control provides evidence for its theoretical relevance for the explanation of adolescent alcohol use. It also suggests leverage points for intervention programs focusing on improving alcohol-specific self-control to reduce adolescent alcohol use. Trial registration. The trial protocol (NTR649) was approved by the Medical Ethical Committee.

scholarly journals A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Parry ◽  
Brittany I. Davidson ◽  
Craig J. R. Sewall ◽  
Jacob T. Fisher ◽  
Hannah Mieczkowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Meta Analysis

Exploring ‘digital placemaking’

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-578
Author(s):  
Germaine Halegoua ◽  
Erika Polson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Broad Framework ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control ◽  
Connected Spaces

This brief essay introduces the special issue on the topic of ‘digital placemaking’ – a concept describing the use of digital media to create a sense of place for oneself and/or others. As a broad framework that encompasses a variety of practices used to create emotional attachments to place through digital media use, digital placemaking can be examined across a variety of domains. The concept acknowledges that, at its core, a drive to create and control a sense of place is understood as primary to how social actors identify with each other and express their identities and how communities organize to build more meaningful and connected spaces. This idea runs through the articles in the issue, exploring the many ways people use digital media, under varied conditions, to negotiate differential mobilities and become placemakers – practices that may expose or amplify preexisting inequities, exclusions, or erasures in the ways that certain populations experience digital media in place and placemaking.

scholarly journals Digital Media Use and Suicidal Behavior in U.S. Adolescents, 2009-2017

2021 ◽  
pp. 101497
Author(s):  
Adam M. Leventhal ◽  
Junhan Cho ◽  
Katherine M. Keyes ◽  
Jennifer Zink ◽  
Kira E. Riehm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Media Use

scholarly journals Families' digital media use: Intentions, rules and activities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Eichen ◽  
Sigrid Hackl‐Wimmer ◽  
Marina Tanja Waltraud Eglmaier ◽  
Helmut Karl Lackner ◽  
Manuela Paechter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use

Digital Media Use and ADHD Symptoms

JAMA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 320 (24) ◽  
pp. 2599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret H. Sibley ◽  
Stefany J. Coxe
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Adhd Symptoms

Digital Media Use in Families

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin A. Dalope ◽  
Leonard J. Woods
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use

scholarly journals Paradigms of the Religious Network Society

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Adam Bajan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Network Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
Individual Self

Beginning in the early 1970’s with the invention of the microprocessor, mass use of information technologies worldwide coincided with the appearance of a nodally-linked network of digital interconnectivity, or ‘network society’ (Castells, 1996). The network society’s exponential growth correlates with a rise in use of digital networking media by various sects and denominations of the Christian religion. Today, growing numbers of Christian organizations integrate digital media into both their approach to worship and the dissemination of the Holy Scriptures. This paper argues that the use of digital media by these organizations is indicative of the creation of a “religious network society” exhibiting identical structural paradigms to Castells’ (1996) network society. By virtue of the media deployed within it, the ‘religious network society’ fosters a mass culture of digital participation characterized by a rapid fragmentation of religious messaging and an over-sharing of personal religious beliefs. However, the religious network society also erodes Christianity’s hierarchical structures of authority (Turner, 2007). It is argued that these structures are being replaced with a banal form of religion emphasizing spirituality and individual self-expression at the expense of tradition (Campbell, 2012; Hjarvard, 2013). Moreover, purpose alterations to Christianity’s authority structures and approach to worship are indicative of a much larger shift in the religion, in which rising digital media use may in fact imply a decline in Christianity’s societal influence.

scholarly journals Automated Monitoring of Suicidal Adolescents’ Digital Media Use: Qualitative Study Exploring Acceptability Within Clinical Care

10.2196/26031 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. e26031
Author(s):  
Candice Biernesser ◽  
Jamie Zelazny ◽  
David Brent ◽  
Todd Bear ◽  
Christina Mair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Automated Monitoring ◽  
Media Monitoring

Background Monitoring linguistic cues from adolescents’ digital media use (DMU; ie, digital content transmitted on the web, such as through text messages or social media) that could denote suicidal risk offers a unique opportunity to protect adolescents vulnerable to suicide, the second leading cause of death among youth. Adolescents communicate through digital media in high volumes and frequently express emotionality. In fact, web-based disclosures of suicidality are more common than in-person disclosures. The use of automated methods of digital media monitoring triggered by a natural language processing algorithm offers the potential to detect suicidal risk from subtle linguistic units (eg, negatively valanced words, phrases, or emoticons known to be associated with suicidality) present within adolescents’ digital media content and to use this information to respond to alerts of suicidal risk. Critical to the implementation of such an approach is the consideration of its acceptability in the clinical care of adolescents at high risk of suicide. Objective Through data collection among recently suicidal adolescents, parents, and clinicians, this study examines the current context of digital media monitoring for suicidal adolescents seeking clinical care to inform the need for automated monitoring and the factors that influence the acceptance of automated monitoring of suicidal adolescents’ DMU within clinical care. Methods A total of 15 recently suicidal adolescents (aged 13-17 years), 12 parents, and 10 clinicians participated in focus groups, qualitative interviews, and a group discussion, respectively. Data were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results Participants described important challenges to the current strategies for monitoring the DMU of suicidal youth. They felt that automated monitoring would have advantages over current monitoring approaches, namely, by protecting web-based environments and aiding adolescent disclosure and support seeking about web-based suicidal risk communication, which may otherwise go unnoticed. However, they identified barriers that could impede implementation within clinical care, namely, adolescents’ and parents’ concerns about unintended consequences of automated monitoring, that is, the potential for loss of privacy or false alerts, and clinicians’ concerns about liability to respond to alerts of suicidal risk. On the basis of the needs and preferences of adolescents, parents, and clinicians, a model for automated digital media monitoring is presented that aims to optimize acceptability within clinical care for suicidal youth. Conclusions Automated digital media monitoring offers a promising means to augment detection and response to suicidal risk within the clinical care of suicidal youth when strategies that address the preferences of adolescents, parents, and clinicians are in place.

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