My new commentary in JOCAM about how Fortnite has been a positive outlet for my son during COVID-19 has been published! Epic Games Store J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social

🚨New article alert! Thrilled to share this JFTR article alongside Caroline Sanner; we reviewed 283 studies that examine associations between family structure and child/adult well-being, highlighting methodological trends and recommendations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚨 job market update! 🚨 A couple months ago, I used psych wiki to compare the job market in early August this year to the job market in prior years (based on some other work from Mark Thornton). This afternoon…1/n

It’s that time of the year again! 👻🎃 ⁦OpenAcademics⁩ ⁦Academic Chatter™⁩

New paper w/Melissa G Wolf, Everyone knows the Hu & Bentler fit cutoffs but the cutoffs don't generalize to your model and they weren't meant to. Fit cutoffs are like a power analysis; values sensitive to misfit vary based on your model characteristics. psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-98…

My lab group is reading JK Flake 📈📏 and Eiko Fried awesome Measurement Schmeasurement paper. So good! Also, on one of my major collaborations, we're instituting a formal exercise to go thru their 6 Questions in Table 1. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚨🚨🚨 Announcement!🚨🚨🚨 I'm excited to announce that I'm launching Techno Sapiens, a newsletter about the digital world and the human beings who live in it. technosapiens.substack.com

So excited for this to come out! An in-depth overview of current research on digital media and teen mental health, written by an incredible group of authors. And free! Sign up to get a copy 👇👇👇

Super excited to announce that my paper updating Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory for the digital age has been published in Current Psychology. Introducing neo-ecological theory! rdcu.be/cFtsS

What is digital parenting? A systematic review of past measurement and blueprint for the future zpr.io/pWKbYgWbiV5m

New tutorial paper on LCA moderation (X→Y varies across ©️) with @nylund_Gibson, amy 💐 b 💐 loves 💐 BOUQUET 💐DELUXE💐. All #Rstats/#MplusAutomation included. Demonstrated using youth coping strategy data. ⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Exciting news… I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday. Thank you to my wonderful advisor, Jon Tudge, and my stellar committee. HDFS@UNCG Michaeline Jensen Jennifer Coffman

Super excited to announce this article about how to use Bronfenbrenner's theory and research model in practice... it even has a handy checklist! doi.org/10.1111/jftr.1… Huge thank you to my coauthors Dr Leah O'Toole @cmstephens22 Olivia Cook HDFS@UNCG #bronfenbrenner #theoryiscool

Open access chapter from our lab available: Digital Media in Adolescent Health Risk and Externalizing Behaviors by Michaeline Jensen Mar Weinstein Morgan Taylor Brown Jessica Navarro bit.ly/3OW0TXN

Parents use digital-specific strategies to mitigate online risks & augment online benefits. The goal of Jessica Navarro, Anne Fletcher, & Michaeline Jensen study was to develop & validate a measure of parents’ attitudes about mediation of digital technology. doi.org/10.1080/174827…

Publication alert! Our J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social article delineating the development and validation of the Digital Parental Mediation Attitudes Scale (DPMAS) is finally out! doi.org/10.1080/174827…

The drive to conduct antiracist research has never been stronger. So, I and my colleagues are proud to share some of our 10 guiding principles for your antiracist research, drawn from our recent article in JSSWR Info 🧵 1/7

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.