Jacqueline Nesi

Biographic Data

ID	5224641
NAME	Jacqueline Nesi
GIVEN NAMES	Jacqueline
FAMILY NAME	Nesi
SIGNATURE	NESI J
AFFILIATIONS	Brown University
ORCID	0000-0001-5869-6360
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	30
TOTAL CITATIONS	24
AUTHOR COUNT	30
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	3

Multimethod assessment of parenting strategies for managing early adolescents' social media use
Open AccessJacqueline Nesi, Jennifer C Wolff et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2026References: 2
Parents influence their children's media habits, yet parenting research has lagged behind the growing influence of social media. This study characterized how parents perceive and implement social media-specific strategies with early adolescents. A total of 102 parents of adolescents (ages 12-15), recruited from primary care clinics and online advertisements, completed baseline assessments, including parent-child interaction tasks and qualitative …
Intimate disclosure in online‐only friendships predicts adolescents' depressive symptoms
Open AccessZelal Kilic, Anne J Maheux et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2026References: 2
Adolescents frequently use social media to form online-only friendships (OOFs; i.e., friendships that are exclusive to digital platforms), raising questions about their emotional impact. While OOFs may provide social support and increase well-being, they could also displace in-person relationships or increase exposure to online risks. This study examined longitudinal associations between OOFs, intimate disclosure within these friendships, and dep…
Development and Characteristics of Sexting from Age 14 to 18 Years in a Norwegian Birth Cohort
Open AccessSilje Steinsbekk, Jacqueline Nesi et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2026References: 47
Sexting, the sending or receiving of sexually explicit texts, images, or videos via technological devices, is common among adolescents. This study examined sexting behaviors in a birth cohort assessed at ages 14, 16, and 18 years (analytical sample: n = 743, 53.7% girls). Results showed receiving sexts was more common than sending them, with frequency increasing with age. Both sending and receiving sexts exhibited significant two-year rank-order …
Characterizing Adolescent Social Media Experiences and Links to Momentary Affect
Open AccessStefanie Sequeira, Kirsten M P McKone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2025
INTRODUCTION: Social media (SM) use is ubiquitous among adolescents, and questions remain regarding the impact of SM on youths' emotional health. Understanding what adolescents are experiencing on SM is critical for answering these questions. METHODS: The present study uses ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to characterize SM experiences (SMEs) over 15 days in 94 U.S. adolescents ages 12-15 years (53% female, 64% White). At each EMA observati…
Objectively measured smartphone pickups among adolescents: Associations with daily positive and negative affect and mindfulness
Open AccessJacqueline Nesi, Kaitlyn Burnell et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2025
Virtual reality delivered exposure for fear of needles: A small-scale pilot
Open AccessAnna Caltabiano, Taylor Burke et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025
Virtual Reality Exposure-Based Therapy appears to be an effective and highly acceptable intervention for reducing immediate anxiety related to needle exposure, demonstrating strong potential as a scalable, accessible alternative to traditional exposure therapy. However, further research is necessary to confirm these findings, optimize intervention protocols, and examine long-term effectiveness for fear of needles
Dispositional and Social Correlates of Digital Status Seeking Among Adolescents
Open AccessJolien Trekels, Jacqueline Nesi et al.ARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2024
Social media have transformed peer relationships among adolescents, providing new avenues to attain online status indicators such as likes and followers. This study aimed to explore the associations between various dispositional and social factors and digital status-seeking behaviors among a sample of adolescents (N = 731; Mage = 14.69, 48.7 percent female), as well as explore potential gender differences in the examined associations. Sociometric…
The new social landscape: Relationships among social media use, social skills, and offline friendships from age 10–18 years
Open AccessSilje Steinsbekk, Oda Bjørklund et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2024
Social media has created a new social landscape for adolescents. Knowledge is needed on how this landscape shapes adolescents' social skills and time spent with friends, as these outcomes are important to mental health and psychosocial functioning. Using five waves of biennially collected data from a birth cohort assessed throughout age 10-18 years (n = 812), we found that increased social media use predicted more time with friends offline but wa…
Use of cannabis to manage symptoms of mental and physical health conditions during pregnancy: Analysis of a pro-cannabis pregnancy forum
Open AccessRachel L Gunn, Elizabeth R Aston et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024
There is need for reduced stigma and open communication between pregnant persons who use cannabis and their providers in discussing how to manage their mental and physical health symptoms. Understanding the various symptoms for which individuals use cannabis during pregnancy to self-treat can inform these conversations and the expansion of harm reduction strategies
Longitudinal Change in Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness and Depressive Symptoms: A Within-Person Analysis during Early-to-Middle Adolescence
Open AccessAnne J Maheux, Jean‐philippe Laurenceau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2024References: 54
Online appearance preoccupation may put adolescents at risk of developing mental health challenges, perhaps especially during early-to-middle adolescence. A random intercept cross-lagged panel model assessed within-person associations between appearance-related social media consciousness and depressive symptoms over three time-points with three months between waves. The sample ( n = 1594) included U.S. adolescents aged 11–15 ( M age = 13; 47% gir…
Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years
Open AccessSilje Steinsbekk, Jacqueline Nesi et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2023
Background: Concerns have been raised that social media use causes mental health problems in adolescents, but findings are mixed, and effects are typically small. The present inquiry is the first to measure diagnostically-defined symptoms of depression and anxiety, examining whether changes in social media behavior predict changes in levels of symptoms from age 10 to 16, and vice versa. We differentiate between activity related to one's own vs. o…
High and low levels of adolescent peer status are associated longitudinally with socioevaluative concern
Open AccessNathan H Field, Elizabeth A Nick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2023References: 5
This study examined linear and curvilinear longitudinal associations between peer status (i.e., likeability and popularity) and socioevaluative concern, a socio-cognitive feature characterized by attunement to judgment from peers. A sample of 716 adolescents (M age = 16.01, SD = 1.25; 54% female; 46.5% White; 69.5% reduced-price lunch) was assessed twice annually. Likeability and popularity were assessed with peer nominations at Time 1. Measures …
The Perfect Storm: A Developmental–Sociocultural Framework for the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Girls’ Body Image Concerns and Mental Health
Open AccessSophia Choukas-Bradley, Savannah R Roberts et al.ARTICLEClinical Child and Family…2022
Reexamining Social Media and Socioemotional Well-Being Among Adolescents Through the Lens of the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review and Directions for Future Research
Open AccessJessica L Hamilton, Jacqueline Nesi et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2022
Social media has rapidly transformed the ways in which adolescents socialize and interact with the world, which has contributed to ongoing public debate about whether social media is helping or harming adolescents. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified both the challenges and opportunities of adolescents’ social-media use, which necessitates revisiting the conversation around teens and social media. In this article, we discuss key aspects of adoles…
Covid-19 Related Daily Stressors, Coping, and Suicidal Ideation in Psychiatrically Hospitalized Youth
Open AccessAnastacia Y Kudinova, Alexandra H Bettis et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2022
Longitudinal associations between appearance‐related social media consciousness and adolescents' depressive symptoms
Open AccessAnne J Maheux, Tina Sabine Weicker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2022
The findings highlight the importance of physical appearance concerns on social media-above and beyond the frequency of use-in the development of depressive symptoms among adolescents. Implications for future research to examine the role of subjective social media experiences in adolescents' depressive symptoms are discussed.
Selfie appearance investment and peer feedback concern: Multimethod investigation of adolescent selfie practices and adjustment
Open AccessJacqueline Nesi, Yuniastuti Yuniastuti et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2021
Sharing "selfies" on social media is common among adolescents. The frequency with which adolescents post selfies may be less important than behaviors and cognitions underlying selfie-posting, and these practices may differ by gender. This multi-method study explored selfie practices in a school-based sample of 639 adolescents ( M age =17.6; 53.5% female). Participants completed self-report measures of selfie practices, body esteem, depressive sym…
The impact of social media use on appearance self-esteem from childhood to adolescence – A 3-wave community study
Open AccessSilje Steinsbekk, Lars Wichstrøm et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2021
Social media users are extensively exposed to photographs displaying idealized self-presentations. This poses a potential threat to youth's appearance self-esteem, but the negative impact may depend upon types of social media engagement. Youth who actively post updates (i.e., self-oriented social media use) may position themselves to receive positive feedback and appearance confirmation and thus show enhanced self-esteem, whereas youths who mostl…
Suicidal Mental Imagery: Investigating a Novel Marker of Suicide Risk
Open AccessHannah R Lawrence, Jacqueline Nesi et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2021
Rates of suicidal ideation and behavior are high and increasing in emerging adulthood. Research focused on suicidal ideation as a predictor of suicidal behavior has nearly exclusively conceptualized suicidal ideation as verbal thoughts about suicide. Emerging research suggests, however, that mentally imagining suicide may be even more impairing than verbal thoughts about suicide. Thirty-nine emerging adults with a lifetime history of suicidal cog…
Covid-19-Specific Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Psychiatrically Hospitalized Adolescents
Open AccessTaylor A Burke, Alexandra H Bettis et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2021
Sexual Communication in the Digital Age: Adolescent Sexual Communication with Parents and Friends About Sexting, Pornography, and Starting Relationships Online
Open AccessLaura Widman, Hannah Javidi et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2021Cited by: 10References: 14
Grateful: Longitudinal Associations Between Adolescents’ Social Media Use and Gratitude During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Open AccessAnne J Maheux, Jacqueline Nesi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2021References: 5
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some ways of using social media-such as directly communicating with friends-may have helped adolescents thrive. We examined longitudinal associations between high school adolescents' social media use and gratitude across a 15-month period before and during the pandemic (n = 704, M age = 15.10; 52% girls). The trajectories of gratitude and the importance of social media for meaningful conversations with friends-but no…
Commentary: An updated agenda for the study of digital media use and adolescent development – future directions following Odgers & Jensen (2020)
Open AccessMitchell J Prinstein, Jacqueline Nesi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2020
Odgers and Jensen’s (Annual research review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: Facts, fears, and future directions, Wiley‐Blackwell, 2020) review compellingly suggests that a rapid increase in the number of hours adolescents now dedicate to digital media use over the past decade may not be associated with concomitant changes in the prevalence of adolescent mental health disorders. Yet, there are many unexplored questions that deserve a…
Emotion dysregulation and non-suicidal self-injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Open AccessJennifer C Wolff, Elizabeth Thompson et al.ARTICLEEuropean Psychiatry2019
Background: Over the past several years there has been considerable interest in the relation between emotion dysregulation and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), particularly given that rates of NSSI have been increasing and NSSI is a critical risk factor for suicidal behavior. To date, however, no synthesis of empirical findings exists. Methods: The present study presents a comprehensive meta-analytic review of the literature on the association be…
Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 1—A Theoretical Framework and Application to Dyadic Peer Relationships
Open AccessJacqueline Nesi, Sophia Choukas-Bradley et al.ARTICLEClinical Child and Family…2018