Dr Ine Beyens

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Ine Beyens is Assistant Professor in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the effects of digital media on the emotional, cognitive, and social development of children and adolescents. Her current work investigates the effects of social media use on adolescents' mental health. In her work, she employs intensive longitudinal data, collected through experience sampling and daily diary methods. Ine is co-founder of Project AWeSome, an interdisciplinary collaboration that investigates the effects of social media use on various aspects of adolescents' well-being.

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Publications

• Beyens, I., Pouwels, J.L., van Driel, I.I., Keijsers, L., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2024). Social media use and adolescents’ well-being: Developing a typology of person-specific effect patterns. Communication Research, 51(6), 691-716. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502211038196
• Beyens, I., Keijsers, L., & Coyne S. (2022). Social media, parenting, and well-being. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47 [101350]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101350
• Valkenburg, P.M., Meier, A., & Beyens, I. (2022). Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 58–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.017
• Beyens, I., Pouwels, J.L., van Driel, I.I., Keijsers, L., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2020). The effect of social media on well-being differs from adolescent to adolescent. Scientific Reports, 10 [10763]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67727-7
• Beyens, I., Frison, E., & Eggermont, S. (2016). “I don’t want to miss a thing”: Adolescents’ fear of missing out and its relationship to adolescents’ social needs, Facebook use, and Facebook related stress. Computers in Human Behavior, 64, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.083

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