Investigation of Digital Media Use, Anxiety, and Biobehavioral Emotion Regulation in Adolescents

青少年数字媒体使用、焦虑和生物行为情绪调节的调查

• 批准号: 10814547
• 负责人: Sarah C Myruski
• 金额: $ 69.22万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-08 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10814547
• 关键词: 18 year old; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; Affective; Age; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Arousal; Attention; Behavior; Biological; COVID-19 pandemic; Cognitive; Communication; Compensation; Computers; Coupled; Data; Development; Devices; Ecological momentary assessment; Electroencephalography; Emotions; Environment; Face; Female; Fostering; Frequencies; Habits; Health; Impairment; Individual Differences; Instagram; Interview; Investigation; Life; Link; Literature; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Mental Health; Methodology; Methods; National Institute of Mental Health; Negative Valence; Neurocognitive; Outcome; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Perception; Persons; Physiology; Prevalence; Process; Psychopathology; Psychophysiology; Questionnaires; Reaction Time; Recommendation; Reporting; Research; Research Domain Criteria; Rest; Risk; Role; Sampling; Sex Differences; Social Behavior; Social Change; Social Processes; Strategic Planning; Symptoms; Technology; Teenagers; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Variant; Vulnerable Populations; Work; Youth; anxiety symptoms; attentional bias; biobehavior; childhood anxiety; clinically significant; cognitive control; cognitive system; critical period; design; digital media; digital technology; emotion regulation; emotional experience; experience; flexibility; handheld mobile device; indexing; infancy; innovation; longitudinal design; male; negative affect; neurodevelopment; physical conditioning; preference; recruit; rumination; showing emotion; social; social media; visual tracking

PROJECT SUMMARY Anxiety symptom onset peaks in adolescence, with an estimated one in three teens experiencing clinically-significant symptoms by age 18 years. Adolescent anxiety confers risk for adulthood anxiety disorders, as well as poor outcomes in multiple domains including overall health and interpersonal functioning. Over the past several decades, the social world of teens has been transformed by pervasive use of digital media (e.g., social media, messaging apps) ingrained in daily life. Both adolescent anxiety and digital media use have continued to become increasingly prevalent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the urgent need for rigorous investigations of longitudinal and mechanistic links between digital technology use and mental health. Guided by three major gaps in the literature, the proposed study will (1) capture how youth engage in digital media use in ways that facilitate or disrupt social connectedness, (2) examine when youth use digital media in the context of momentary affect and anxiety in daily life, and (3) address why digital media use may be beneficial or detrimental for some by examining mechanistic links among biobehavioral cognitive and affective functioning, digital media use, and anxiety. In particular, adolescence is a critical period of neurodevelopment in frontal-subcortical circuitry underlying emotion regulation, the implicit and explicit processes by which we manage emotions, and a major predictor of anxiety disorders. This study will leverage an innovative, multi-method (i.e., questionnaires, interviews, reaction time, eye-tracking, EEG) biobehavioral assessment of emotion regulation coupled with ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of within-person daily patterns of digital media use, emotional experiences, anxiety symptoms, and emotion regulation measured longitudinally in teens. We will index youths' emotion regulation strengths and vulnerabilities by (1) contextualizing emotion regulation within adolescents' daily life, (2) targeting both explicit and implicit regulatory processes, and (3) capturing biobehavioral aspects of ER that reflect rapid attentional processes, cognitive control, and flexibility. This work is in line with the Research Domain Criteria initiative to investigate developmental change within ecologically-valid environments by integrating measurement across multiple domains [(negative valence (potential threat), cognitive systems (attention, control), social processes (communication, connectedness), arousal (affective states)] and across units of analysis (physiology, behaviors, paradigms, self-reports). This research aligns with the NIH-wide strategic plan emphasizing the need to illuminate the role of technology and media use in development and will contribute to NIMH's Objective 2 by furthering the interrogation of biobehavioral indicators related to anxiety symptom trajectories in youth. Findings from this research have the potential to elucidate the impact of digital media use on vulnerable individuals and inform recommendations for healthy technology use.

项目摘要 焦虑症状在青春期达到高峰，估计三分之一的青少年经历过 18岁时出现临床显著症状。青少年焦虑会增加成年焦虑的风险 疾病，以及多个领域的不良结果，包括整体健康和人际功能。 在过去的几十年里，青少年的社交世界已经被数字化的广泛使用所改变。 媒体（例如，社交媒体、消息应用程序）在日常生活中根深蒂固。青少年焦虑和数字媒体 在整个COVID-19大流行期间， 迫切需要严格调查数字技术使用之间的纵向和机械联系 和心理健康。在文献中的三个主要空白的指导下，拟议的研究将（1）捕捉青年如何 以促进或破坏社会联系的方式参与数字媒体的使用，（2）检查年轻人何时使用 数字媒体在日常生活中的瞬间情感和焦虑的背景下，以及（3）解决为什么数字媒体使用 可能是有益的或有害的一些通过检查机械之间的联系，生物行为的认知和 情感功能、数字媒体使用和焦虑。特别是，青春期是一个关键时期， 情绪调节的额叶皮层下回路的神经发育，内隐和外显 这是我们管理情绪的过程，也是焦虑症的主要预测因素。这项研究将利用 一种创新的、多方法（即，问卷调查、访谈、反应时间、眼动追踪、EEG）生物行为 情绪调节评估结合人内生态瞬时评估（EMA） 数字媒体使用的日常模式，情绪体验，焦虑症状和情绪调节 在青少年中纵向测量。我们将通过（1）对青少年情绪调节的优势和弱点进行索引。 将情绪调节置于青少年日常生活的情境中，（2）针对外显和内隐情绪调节 调节过程，和（3）捕捉反映快速注意过程的ER的生物行为方面， 认知控制和灵活性。这项工作符合研究领域标准倡议， 生态有效环境内的发展变化，通过整合多种测量 领域[（负效价（潜在威胁），认知系统（注意力，控制），社会过程 （沟通，连通性），唤醒（情感状态）]和跨分析单元（生理学， 行为、范例、自我报告）。这项研究符合NIH的战略计划，强调 需要阐明技术和媒体使用在发展中的作用，并将有助于NIMH的目标 2通过进一步询问与青年焦虑症状轨迹相关的生物行为指标。 这项研究的结果有可能阐明数字媒体使用对弱势群体的影响。 并为健康的技术使用提供建议。