Patti M Valkenburg

Biographic Data

ID87478
NAMEPatti M Valkenburg
GIVEN NAMESPatti M
FAMILY NAMEValkenburg
SIGNATUREVALKENBURG P M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0003-0477-8429
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS117
TOTAL CITATIONS963
AUTHOR COUNT117
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX16

  • Diverse platforms, diverse effects: Evidence from a 100-day study on social media and adolescent mental health

    Open AccessAmber Van Der Wal, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2026

    The rising prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents has prompted increased scrutiny of social media as a contributing factor. Previous research has produced mixed results, likely due to the varying impact of social media on different dimensions of mental health. To advance understanding in this area, this study examined how social media use affects three critical dimensions of adolescent mental health – well-being, self-esteem, and …

  • Adolescents’ Digital Nightlife: The Comparative Effects of Day- and Nighttime Smartphone Use on Sleep Quality

    Open AccessTobin Siebers, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLECommunication Research2026

    The smartphone occupies a substantial part of adolescents’ daily life, from the moment they wake up to, for some, well beyond their bedtime. The current study compared the impact of adolescents’ daytime, pre-bedtime, and post-bedtime smartphone use on their sleep quality. In addition, it explored the differential effects of lean-back and lean-forward smartphone apps. We collected data from 155 adolescents across 21 days using smartphone tracking …

  • From Burden to Enjoyment: A User‐Centered Approach to Engage Adolescents in Intensive Longitudinal Research

    Open AccessAnne Bülow, Loes H C Janssen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2025

    INTRODUCTION: Adolescent psychology is embracing intensive longitudinal methods, such as diaries and experience sampling techniques, to investigate real-life experiences. However, participants might perceive the repetitive self-reporting in these data collection techniques as burdensome and demotivating, resulting in decreased compliance rates. In this tutorial paper, we present a user-centered approach aimed at making participation in experience…

  • Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents' social media use on psychosocial functioning

    Open AccessJ Loes Pouwels, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLEChild Development2025References: 68

    To better understand the effects of social media use on adolescents' psychosocial functioning, this study examined the temporal stability of social media effects across two separate 3-week experience sampling methodology (ESM) studies conducted 6 months apart in 2019 and 2020. Participants were 297 adolescents (M age = 14.1 years, SD = 0.7, 58.9% girls; 41.1% boys; 0.1% other; 97% Dutch) who completed 126 momentary questionnaires on social media …

  • Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100-day diary study

    Open AccessLoes H C Janssen, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLEChild Development2025References: 51

    Digital technology enables parents and adolescents to communicate anywhere and anytime. Knowledge of parent–adolescent online communication, however, is mainly based on cross-sectional studies. In this preregistered 100-day diary study, 479 adolescents (M age = 15.98, 54.9% girls; 96.9% Dutch) reported daily if they had communicated with their parents online, how long (i.e., duration), and what they discussed (i.e., topics). Parent–adolescent onl…

  • 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…

  • Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Well-Being: Developing a Typology of Person-Specific Effect Patterns

    Open AccessIne Beyens, J Loes Pouwels et al.ARTICLECommunication Research2024

    This study investigated the effects of active private, passive private, and passive public social media use on adolescents’ affective well-being. Intensive longitudinal data (34,930 assessments in total) were collected through a preregistered three-week experience sampling method study among 387 adolescents. N = 1 time series were investigated, using Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling. Findings showed that different types of social media use ve…

  • Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents’ social media use scale (Pacas)

    Open AccessIne Beyens, Loes Keijsers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2024

    Adolescents spend a substantial portion of their time using social media. Yet, there is a lack of understanding regarding how often parents and adolescents communicate about this social media use. To address this gap, we developed the Parent-Adolescent Communication about Adolescents' Social Media Use Scale (PACAS). In a first data wave, among 388 Dutch adolescents (13-15 years; 54% girls), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses distinguish…

  • It is time to ensure research access to platform data

    Open AccessPatti M Valkenburg, Amber Van Der Wal et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024References: 6

  • In Their Own Words: How Adolescents Use Social Media and How It Affects Them

    Open AccessAmber Van Der Wal, Patti M Valkenburg et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2024Cited by: 3References: 39

    The aim of this qualitative study was to uncover homogeneity (commonalities between adolescents), heterogeneity (differences between adolescents), and duality (differences within adolescents) in the relationship between adolescents' social media use and well-being. To do so, 8 focus groups with 55 adolescents aged 14-17 were conducted. Anchored in the differential susceptibility to media effects model, we examined adolescents' (1) individual moti…

  • Happiness and Sadness in Adolescents' Instagram Direct Messaging: A Neural Topic Modeling Approach

    Open AccessTim Verbeij, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2024Cited by: 1References: 45

    We investigated the expressions of happiness and sadness in adolescents' direct messages (DMs) on Instagram. Using neural topic modeling ( BERTopic), we analyzed 211,778 DMs belonging to 96 adolescents, who donated data from 101 Instagram accounts. Results showed that (1) expressions of happiness were more than four times more prevalent than expressions of sadness; (2) the number of DMs containing expressions of happiness and expressions of sadne…

  • Explaining variation in adolescents’ social media-related distraction: The role of social connectivity and disconnectivity factors

    Open AccessTobin Siebers, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

    Social media are often believed to distract adolescents’ attention. While existing research has shown that some adolescents experience more social media-related distraction than others, the explanations for these differences remain largely unknown. Based on Self-Determination Theory, this preregistered study investigated two social connectivity factors (fear of missing out [FoMO] and friendship accessibility expectations) and two disconnectivity …

  • The effects of fragmented and sticky smartphone use on distraction and task delay

    Open AccessTobin Siebers, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLEMobile Media & Communication2023References: 10

    The smartphone has become an integral part of adolescents’ daily life. Despite the countless affordances of smartphones, concerns have been raised about their enormous potential to cause failures in self-regulation, such as distraction and task delay. The current study investigated whether two smartphone usage patterns, fragmented and sticky smartphone use, are associated with distraction and task delay. For three weeks, we logged the smartphone …

  • Integrating Communication Science and Computational Methods to Study Content-Based Social Media Effects

    Open AccessJ Loes Pouwels, Theo Araujo et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2023References: 9

    A pressing societal and scientific question is how social media use affects our cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. To answer this question, fine-grained insight into the content of individuals' social media use is needed. It is difficult to study content-based social media effects with traditional survey methods because such methods are incapable of capturing the extreme volume and variety of social media content that is shared and received. Th…

  • Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents

    Open AccessAdrian Meier, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Computer-Mediated…2023Cited by: 3References: 5

    There is a popular concern that adolescents’ social media use, especially via smartphones, leads to the delay of intended, potentially more important tasks. Automatic social media use and frequent phone checking may especially contribute to task delay. Prior research has investigated this hypothesis through between-person associations. We advance the literature by additionally examining within-person and person-specific associations of automatic …

  • Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence

    Open AccessPatti M Valkenburg, Adrian Meier et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Psychology2022

    Literature reviews on how social media use affects adolescent mental health have accumulated at an unprecedented rate of late. Yet, a higher-level integration of the evidence is still lacking. We fill this gap with an up-to-date umbrella review, a review of reviews published between 2019 and mid-2021. Our search yielded 25 reviews: seven meta-analyses, nine systematic, and nine narrative reviews. Results showed that most reviews interpreted the a…

  • Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know

    Open AccessPatti M ValkenburgARTICLECurrent Opinion in Psychology2022

    Research into the impact of social media use (SMU) on well-being (e.g., happiness) and ill-being (e.g., depression) has exploded over the past few years. From 2019 to August 2021, 27 reviews have been published: nine meta-analyses, nine systematic reviews, and nine narrative reviews, which together included hundreds of empirical studies. The aim of this umbrella review is to synthesize the results of these meta-analyses and reviews. Even though t…

  • Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents

    Open AccessTobin Siebers, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2022

    A widespread concern in society is that adolescents experience an increased inability to concentrate and sustain attention because they are continuously distracted by social media. The current experience sampling method (ESM) study examined whether adolescents who use more social media than their peers experience more distraction (between-person association), whether social media use (SMU) and distraction co-fluctuate within adolescents (momentar…

  • Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression

    Open AccessAmber Van Der Wal, J Loes Pouwels et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2022

    Humorous media entertainment frequently punctuates the everyday lives of adolescents. Theorists have suggested that this exposure may impact behavior, particularly real-life aggression. Specifically, exposure to prosocial (coping) humor in media entertainment is posited to decrease aggression, whereas the reverse has been argued for exposure to antisocial (disparaging and slapstick) humor. Despite these suppositions, little empirical evidence abo…

  • Promises and Pitfalls of Social Media Data Donations

    Open AccessIrene I Van Driel, Anastasia Giachanou et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2022Cited by: 15References: 6

    Studies assessing the effects of social media use are largely based on measures of time spent on social media. In recent years, scholars increasingly ask for more insights in social media activities and content people engage with. Data Download Packages (DDPs), the archives of social media platforms that each European user has the right to download, provide a new and promising method to collect timestamped and content-based information about soci…

  • The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review

    Open AccessPatti M Valkenburg, Irene I Van Driel et al.ARTICLENew Media & Society2021Cited by: 22References: 6

    A recurring claim in the literature is that active social media use (ASMU) leads to increases in well-being, whereas passive social media use (PSMU) leads to decreases in well-being. The aim of this review was to investigate the validity of this claim by comparing the operationalizations and results of studies into the association of ASMU and PSMU with well-being (e.g. happiness) and ill-being (e.g. depressive symptoms). We found 40 survey-based …

  • Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”

    Open AccessPatti M Valkenburg, Ine Beyens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Computer-Mediated…2021Cited by: 7References: 5

    A recurring hypothesis in the literature is that “passive” social media use (browsing) leads to negative effects on well-being. This preregistered study investigated a rival hypothesis, which states that the effects of browsing on well-being depend on person-specific susceptibilities to envy, inspiration, and enjoyment. We conducted a three-week experience sampling study among 353 adolescents (13–15 years, 126 assessments per adolescent). Using a…

  • Social media use and friendship closeness in adolescents’ daily lives: An experience sampling study

    Open AccessJ Loes Pouwels, Patti M Valkenburg et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021Cited by: 19References: 2

    The formation and maintenance of friendship closeness is an important developmental task in adolescence. To obtain insight in real-time processes that may underly the development of friendship closeness in middle adolescence, this preregistered experience sampling study [ESM] investigated the effects of social media use on friendship closeness. The study was conducted among 387 adolescents (54% girls; M age = 14.11 years; 96% Dutch) from differen…

  • More than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of Humor in Media Entertainment for Tweens and Teens

    Amber Van Der Wal, Jessica Taylor Piotrowski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Broadcasting &…2020

    Despite the crucial role of humor in t(w)eens’ media entertainment, we lack a theoretically informed approach to investigate the prevalence and co-occurrence of humor types in such entertainment. Therefore, this study tested a coding framework of humor in t(w)eens’ media entertainment by content-analyzing 107 television series (5,633 scenes) listed by 10- to 14-year-olds as their favorite. Results confirmed ten humor types (aggressive, slapstick,…

  • Child’s Play? Assessing the Bidirectional Longitudinal Relationship between Gaming and Intelligence in Early Childhood

    Open AccessKarin M Fikkers, Jessica Taylor Piotrowski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2019

    This study investigated the longitudinal relationship between children's digital game use and fluid and crystallized intelligence. Specifically, this study examined whether digital games affect children's fluid and crystallized intelligence (an effects perspective), whether children with higher levels of fluid or crystallized intelligence are more attracted to digital games (a selection perspective), or whether evidence supports a reciprocal rela…