HappyB - Being, Body, and Brain
The HappyB project includes two studies. In Study I, the aim is to investigate how smartphone and social media use are related to adolescents’ well-being, over and above the illness model of well-being. In Study II, the aim is to disentangle the person-specific effects of media use on well-being daily, by collecting data with a smartphone-based application (Ethica now Avicenna), installed on participants’ devices.
The study
Participants:
About 1600 adolescents living in Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland.
Design of the study:
Longitudinal, Survey, Ecological Momentary Assessments, Trace data, Screenshots
Duration:
2 years (2022-2023)
Funding:
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
Subtitle:
The science of youth well-being in the digital era: an intensive longitudinal study
Aim:
HappyB aims to explore the longitudinal links between social media and smartphone use and adolescents’ hedonic and eudaimonic well-being.
Location:
USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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Alessia Robbiani
alessia.robbiani@unil.ch
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Susanna Morlino
susannamorlino@gmail.com
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Soumya Mohanty
soumya_mohanty@hsph.harvard.edu
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Sundas Saboor
sundassaboor@hsph.harvard.edu
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Adrián Medina
amedina1@g.harvard.edu