Global prevalence of digital addiction in general population: A systematic review and meta-analysis

SQ Meng, JL Cheng, YY Li, XQ Yang, JW Zheng… - Clinical psychology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present meta-analytic review aimed to synthesize the global prevalence characteristics
of digital addiction in the general population. We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane …

[HTML][HTML] Teenagers, screens and social media: a narrative review of reviews and key studies

A Orben - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2020 - Springer
Materials and Methods Systematic reviews, meta-analyses and key studies are reviewed to
provide insights into the state of current research linking digital technology and social media …

Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media

A Orben, AK Przybylski, SJ Blakemore… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The relationship between social media use and life satisfaction changes across adolescent
development. Our analyses of two UK datasets comprising 84,011 participants (10–80 years …

Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability

A Orben, A Meier, T Dalgleish… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Research linking social media use and adolescent mental health has produced mixed and
inconsistent findings and little translational evidence, despite pressure to deliver concrete …

The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use

A Orben, AK Przybylski - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
The widespread use of digital technologies by young people has spurred speculation that
their regular use negatively impacts psychological well-being. Current empirical evidence …

The “online brain”: how the Internet may be changing our cognition

J Firth, J Torous, B Stubbs, JA Firth, GZ Steiner… - World …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of the Internet across multiple aspects of modern society is clear. However, the
influence that it may have on our brain structure and functioning remains a central topic of …

Importance of investing in adolescence from a developmental science perspective

RE Dahl, NB Allen, L Wilbrecht, AB Suleiman - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
This review summarizes the case for investing in adolescence as a period of rapid growth,
learning, adaptation, and formational neurobiological development. Adolescence is a …

The Sisyphean cycle of technology panics

A Orben - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Widespread concerns about new technologies—whether they be novels, radios, or
smartphones—are repeatedly found throughout history. Although tales of past panics are …

How sedentary are university students? A systematic review and meta-analysis

O Castro, J Bennie, I Vergeer, G Bosselut… - Prevention science, 2020 - Springer
Accumulating high volumes of sedentary behaviour is a risk factor for multiple negative
health-related outcomes. The objective of this review was to synthesise the evidence on the …

What is digital parenting? A systematic review of past measurement and blueprint for the future

KL Modecki, RE Goldberg… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Concerns about parenting adolescents are not new, but the rapid diffusion of digital
technologies has heightened anxieties over digital parenting. Findings are decidedly mixed …