Background and aim Social networking sites (SNS) are interactive internet‐based social
platforms that facilitate information sharing. A growing body of literature on exposure to, and …

Social media play a crucial role in adolescents' everyday lives and impact their well-being,
mental health, and risk behavior. Consequently, it is vital to understand the multifaceted …

The article aims to provide a profound understanding of the multifaceted role of adolescents'
social media use in the context of drinking onset. It differentiates between exposure and …

Background COVID-19 and measures to contain it may have impacted college students'
behavior, including their drinking behavior. Students' drinking may have decreased—for …

Introduction Frequent exposure to peer‐shared alcohol‐related content (ARC) on social
media is associated with greater alcohol consumption and related consequences among …

Greater use of communication technologies among young people, including mobile phones,
social media and communication apps, has coincided with declines in youth alcohol use in …

While numerous studies have documented an association between mainstream media trust
and mainstream media use, only little is known about potential causal mechanisms …

Mounting research finds that sharing alcohol references on social media is related to higher
levels of alcohol consumption. The present study aims to improve our understanding of …

This registered report details a longitudinal experiment testing political self-effects–changes
in issue-related attitudes and indicators of political self-concept–resulting from political …

Numerous studies have highlighted the relation between drinking behavior and alcohol
references on social media. However, most studies on substance-use-related social media …