The Effect of Social Media on Adolescent Health Behaviors and Health-Related Outcomes
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 1544
Special Issue Editor
Interests: child screen use; impact of household chaos on child well-being; free play in children; sleep in preschoolers; delaying access to social media in children and adolescents; parental interventions to promote child well-being
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) will focus on current research investigating the effect of social media on adolescent health behaviors and health-related outcomes.
New research papers, reviews, and conference papers are welcome for submission, including any research that investigates the development and effectiveness of interventions and approaches for reducing the impact of social media on adolescent well-being, as well as new approaches for measuring social media use. We welcome methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries related to this topic.
The impact of social media on adolescent health behaviors and health-related outcomes represents a diverse area of research; as such, we welcome research from a broad range of disciplines. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cognitive impacts;
- Attention;
- Addiction;
- Cognition;
- Academic performance;
- Brain changes.
- Physical health;
- Eye health;
- Physical activity;
- Pain/headaches;
- Sleep;
- Diet and eating behaviors.
- Social and emotional well-being;
- Cyberbullying;
- Anxiety and depression;
- Self-harm and suicide;
- Loneliness;
- Body image;
- Family relationships and attachment.
Dr. Samantha Marsh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- social media
- adolescents
- health
- psychological distress
- anxiety
- attention
- physical health
- attachment
- parent–child relationship
- intervention
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