Xiaoran Sun, assistant professor of Family Social Science and PI of our lab, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant entitled, "Adolescents' Social Media Management Strategies: Bidirectional Links to Objective Social Media Use and Mental Health Outcomes." (1R01MH138929). The grant is a 4-year award funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, for a total amount of $2,750,433.
This NIMH-funded study is focused on
how adolescents manage their social media use on a daily basis,
how their social media use management strategies influence their actual social media use,
and how their strategies and their use of social media interact with their mental health.
We are actively looking for participants to join this study! If you are between age 13 to 17, has a smartphone, use social media at least once a week, please contact us at (TeenSocialMedia@umn.edu).