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Luisa Fassi
@fassiluisa.bsky.social
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PhD @mrccbu.bsky.social & http://orben.group
Youth mental health / Social media use / Open science

https://luisafassi.github.io/
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Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social · May 6
After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...
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tobiasdienlin.com
Looking forward to @fassiluisa.bsky.social‘s talk at our department next week :)
Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Mental Health: What do we actually know? Guest Talk Media Psychology & Methods Division Monday, 03 November 2025 14.00 – 15.00, AND-3-23 Luisa Fassi is a Graduate Student with the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge, UK Biography Luisa Fassi is a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, working across the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Department of Psychiatry. Her doctoral research, which was recently recognised by the Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award, focuses on studying the relationship between social media use and adolescents' mental health. Abstract Mental health conditions affect one in seven adolescents globally, and social media has become a central part of young people’s daily lives. These parallel trends have sparked widespread concern, yet research linking social media use to youth mental health remains mixed and often lacks clinical relevance. In this lecture, I present findings from two complementary studies that aim to bridge this gap and inform both clinical and societal responses. The first is a pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis that synthesizes 15 years of research on the relationship between social media use and internalising symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety) in both community and clinical samples. The second study is a registered report that analyses a nationally representative UK sample to examine differences in social media use among adolescents with and without mental health conditions. Unlike most studies that rely on single-questionnaire assessments, this study integrates clinical diagnoses made by professional raters based on multi-informant interviews. Together, these findings highlight the need for more targeted psychoeducation, clinical assessments, and interventions that reflect adolescents’ diverse lived experiences when it comes to social media use.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
fassiluisa.bsky.social
Very exciting to present our latest findings on social media use and youth mental health at @ecnp.eu in Amsterdam!
ecnp.eu ECNP @ecnp.eu · Oct 12
📚 An insightful Educational Update Session at #ECNP2025 on how digital media shapes youth mental health. 🌐🧠
#psychiatry #neuroscience @fassiluisa.bsky.social @giselasugranyes.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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ecnp.eu
📚 An insightful Educational Update Session at #ECNP2025 on how digital media shapes youth mental health. 🌐🧠
#psychiatry #neuroscience @fassiluisa.bsky.social @giselasugranyes.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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orbenamy.bsky.social
I'm hiring 2+ 2.5-year postdocs over the next few months.

Job 1: looking for someone with deep expertise in computational modelling (reinforcement learning, agent based modelling) on real-world/complex data (closing: 18 August, starting: October-December), www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52059/
July 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
fassiluisa.bsky.social
I am honoured to have been selected as Researcher of the Month by Tooled Up Education! ⬇️

You can find the podcast interview where I discuss my latest research here: open.spotify.com/episode/7God...

And the article with a summary here: www.tooledupeducation.com/research/do-...
Researcher of the Month: Luisa Fassi Discusses Researcher of the Month: Luisa Fassi Discusses Social Media Use in Teens With and Without Mental Health Conditions
Dr Kathy Weston's Get a Grip! Parenting Podcast · Episode
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July 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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livia-tomova.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an 8-year Wellcome Career Development Award to investigate how loneliness affects young people's brains and minds!! Grateful for the support and excited for the road ahead!
@wellcometrust.bsky.social

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
The impacts of loneliness in young people
£1.5 million investment into the impacts of loneliness on the brains of young people.
www.cardiff.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
fassiluisa.bsky.social
Very excited for this preprint to be out, led by the stellar @tommetherell.com ⬇️

Leveraging data linkage of secondary care records, we examine the longitudinal relationship between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses.
tommetherell.com Tom Metherell @tommetherell.com · Jul 14
We have a ✨NEW PREPRINT✨! Using data from the @clscohorts.bsky.social Millennium Cohort Study and linked healthcare records, we tested the association between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses in secondary care in young people in England. This is still a work in progress - feedback welcome!
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 8
Characterising the longitudinal relationship between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses in secondary care in adolescents in England: https://osf.io/87cze
July 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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elisabaek.bsky.social
Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
The four conceptualizations of social connection
Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
fassiluisa.bsky.social
Very excited and grateful to receive the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award for my PhD thesis!

A special thanks to the Institute, the organisers and my wonderful PhD supervisors @orbenamy.bsky.social & @tamsinford.bsky.social.

More info: psychoftech.substack.com/p/congratula...
natefast.bsky.social Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Jun 4
We're excited to announce the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award winners! Please join us in congratulating them!
June 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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osorensen.bsky.social
Ecological momentary assessment data are everywhere these days. In psychology, dynamic structural equation models (DSEMs) are particularly attractive for analyzing such data. In this paper Ethan McCormick and I show how you can easily incorporate nonlinear trends and cycles using splines.
June 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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amiraskeggs.bsky.social
New Perspective out in @nathumbehav.nature.com today with co-author @orbenamy.bsky.social!

We propose a new framework for designing 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 that support well-being, grounded in self-determination theory 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social media interventions to improve well-being - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Perspective, the authors review current interventions on social media use among adolescents and propose a new theoretical model based on self-determination theory to guide the effective design...
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May 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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nathumbehav.nature.com
What's the relationship between social media use and mental health problems in adolescents? A Registered Report by @fassiluisa.bsky.social et al examined this question using a nationally representative UK sample. #socialmedia #mentalhealth
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...
www.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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oii.ox.ac.uk
📊 New research led by Luisa Fassi (@fassiluisa.bsky.social) and involving Prof Andy Przybylski (@shuhbillskee.bsky.social) of the OII reveals that adolescents with mental health conditions engage with social media differently than their peers.
May 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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georgiaturner.bsky.social
Important new study about social media use in vulnerable young people:
May 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
Great new study that will contribute usefully to the social media and mental health question. It uses more detailed assessment of both social media use and mental health, which has been a bit issue with previous research.
This study shows that...

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May 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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orbenamy.bsky.social
I am so excited that this is now out. An absolutely **mammoth** amount of work, please give this thread a read ⬇️💪💪
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
fassiluisa.bsky.social
After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...
www.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
March 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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orbenamy.bsky.social
My team has got news!

Looking forward to working on this with great team members and collaborators across the UK ⬇️

www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Cambridge leads governmental project to understand impact of smartphones and social media on young people
Cambridge researchers are leading the first phase of a new research project that will lay the groundwork for future studies into the impact on children of
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January 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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orbenamy.bsky.social
Great to see work from our team lead by the fantastic @fassiluisa.bsky.social being written up for a general audience by The Mental Elf! Worth a read if you are interested in the evidence base on social media and clinical anxiety/depression in young people ⬇️
January 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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timetit.bsky.social
Ancora @fassiluisa.bsky.social e gruppo Orben con una revisione accurata e ragionata che smonta le semplicistiche associazioni tra social media e malessere giovanile. Correlazioni spurie per teoria raffazzonata da esperti che male informa le politiche pubbliche.

Ne scrivono su The Mental Elf:
January 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM