Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2020 Mar;61(3):349-352. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13219.
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 attention to fully understand how adolescents' use of digital media has transformed social experiences and adolescent development. In this commentary, we offer an agenda for researchers interested in examining digital media use within a broader developmental psychopathology framework. Specifically, we discuss past theories and emerging findings suggesting both deleterious and beneficial effects of digital media use, a need for greater semantic clarity in the field, and a call for greater methodological precision to fully capture concurrent and prospective associations between digital media use and adjustment. In addition, we suggest that it may be fruitful to dedicate less research attention toward the number of hours that adolescents spend using technology, and more on what specific behaviors teens engage in online. Moreover, more work is needed to understand individual vulnerability or resiliency factors that may impact online experiences. We review opportunities for future work on digital media use that may integrate findings from developmental social neuroscience and also discuss a need to investigate how adolescents' online behavior may be affecting developmental competencies offline. Adolescents' use of digital media is rapidly changing, and this is an important, yet challenging topic that deserves attention from investigators who study adolescent adjustment.
奥德格斯和詹森（《年度研究评论：数字时代青少年心理健康：事实、恐惧和未来方向》，威利-布莱克威尔，2020 年）的评论令人信服地表明，在过去十年中，青少年现在用于数字媒体的时间迅速增加，这可能与青少年心理健康障碍的患病率没有伴随变化有关。然而，仍有许多未被探索的问题值得关注，以充分了解青少年对数字媒体的使用如何改变了社交体验和青少年的发展。在这篇评论中，我们为有兴趣在更广泛的发展心理病理学框架内研究数字媒体使用的研究人员提供了一个议程。具体来说，我们讨论了过去的理论和新兴发现，这些理论和发现表明数字媒体使用既有有害影响，也有有益影响，该领域需要更大的语义清晰度，并呼吁采用更精确的方法来充分捕捉数字媒体使用与调整之间的并发和前瞻性关联。此外，我们建议，将更多的研究注意力从青少年使用技术的时间转移到青少年在网上从事的具体行为上，可能会更有成效。此外，还需要更多的工作来了解可能影响在线体验的个体脆弱性或恢复力因素。我们回顾了数字媒体使用方面的未来工作机会，这些机会可能整合发展社会神经科学的发现，并讨论了需要研究青少年的在线行为如何影响线下的发展能力。青少年对数字媒体的使用正在迅速变化，这是一个重要但具有挑战性的话题，值得研究青少年适应能力的研究人员关注。
