Matilda Gosling
@matildagosling.bsky.social
Independent social researcher and non-fiction author. Teenagers: The Evidence Base and Evidence-Based Parenting (both Swift Press) are out now.
In Life On Mars this week:
⏺️ How rumination affects teenage well-being and sleep
⏺️ Risk factors for problematic internet gaming
⏺️ Long-term effects of adolescent nicotine
matildagosling.substack.com/p/chewing-th...
⏺️ How rumination affects teenage well-being and sleep
⏺️ Risk factors for problematic internet gaming
⏺️ Long-term effects of adolescent nicotine
matildagosling.substack.com/p/chewing-th...
September 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
In Life On Mars this week:
⏺️ How rumination affects teenage well-being and sleep
⏺️ Risk factors for problematic internet gaming
⏺️ Long-term effects of adolescent nicotine
matildagosling.substack.com/p/chewing-th...
⏺️ How rumination affects teenage well-being and sleep
⏺️ Risk factors for problematic internet gaming
⏺️ Long-term effects of adolescent nicotine
matildagosling.substack.com/p/chewing-th...
This week’s Life On Mars:
▶️ The impact of mental fatigue on teenage sporting performance by age/experience
▶️ Short-term benefits of noticing good things in nature
▶️ Why teenagers with poor mental health can’t always do what would help them most
matildagosling.substack.com/p/mental-fat...
▶️ The impact of mental fatigue on teenage sporting performance by age/experience
▶️ Short-term benefits of noticing good things in nature
▶️ Why teenagers with poor mental health can’t always do what would help them most
matildagosling.substack.com/p/mental-fat...
August 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This week’s Life On Mars:
▶️ The impact of mental fatigue on teenage sporting performance by age/experience
▶️ Short-term benefits of noticing good things in nature
▶️ Why teenagers with poor mental health can’t always do what would help them most
matildagosling.substack.com/p/mental-fat...
▶️ The impact of mental fatigue on teenage sporting performance by age/experience
▶️ Short-term benefits of noticing good things in nature
▶️ Why teenagers with poor mental health can’t always do what would help them most
matildagosling.substack.com/p/mental-fat...
This week’s Life On Mars investigates links between breakfast and mental health, the importance of creative pursuits over the teenage years, and why teenagers who’ve had brushes with the law take more sexual risks.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/skipping-b...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/skipping-b...
August 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This week’s Life On Mars investigates links between breakfast and mental health, the importance of creative pursuits over the teenage years, and why teenagers who’ve had brushes with the law take more sexual risks.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/skipping-b...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/skipping-b...
Why obvious-sounding policy levers may not get the results intended and the problem with therapy chatbots – this week’s Life On Mars.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/unintended...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/unintended...
June 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Why obvious-sounding policy levers may not get the results intended and the problem with therapy chatbots – this week’s Life On Mars.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/unintended...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/unintended...
Does ‘I-talk’ – the amount of times teenagers say the word ‘I’ – tell us anything about their minds? What’s the link between childhood maltreatment and risk? And why should teenagers (parents, teachers etc) be lifting weights?
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/i-talk-fro...
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/i-talk-fro...
June 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Does ‘I-talk’ – the amount of times teenagers say the word ‘I’ – tell us anything about their minds? What’s the link between childhood maltreatment and risk? And why should teenagers (parents, teachers etc) be lifting weights?
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/i-talk-fro...
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/i-talk-fro...
This week’s Life On Mars: the double bind of civic engagement programmes, research about parents of chronically ill or disabled children, and the structure of a possibly perfect teenage day.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/civic-enga...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/civic-enga...
May 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This week’s Life On Mars: the double bind of civic engagement programmes, research about parents of chronically ill or disabled children, and the structure of a possibly perfect teenage day.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/civic-enga...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/civic-enga...
Can we learn anything about human blue light exposure from adolescent mice? What happens when links between social media and mental ill-health are tested using different teenagers? How do sleep/wake cycles link to depression?
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/blue-light...
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/blue-light...
May 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Can we learn anything about human blue light exposure from adolescent mice? What happens when links between social media and mental ill-health are tested using different teenagers? How do sleep/wake cycles link to depression?
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/blue-light...
This week’s Life On Mars: matildagosling.substack.com/p/blue-light...
This week’s Life On Mars explores the social contagion of illness online, a study adding further bulk to evidence suggesting universal mental health interventions don’t work, and why avoiding avoidance may be unhelpful.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/online-ill...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/online-ill...
May 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This week’s Life On Mars explores the social contagion of illness online, a study adding further bulk to evidence suggesting universal mental health interventions don’t work, and why avoiding avoidance may be unhelpful.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/online-ill...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/online-ill...
This week’s Life On Mars: research and counter-research on the impact of smartphones, eye tracking in social anxiety, and strategies that may help young adults with public speaking.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/ongoing-sm...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/ongoing-sm...
April 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This week’s Life On Mars: research and counter-research on the impact of smartphones, eye tracking in social anxiety, and strategies that may help young adults with public speaking.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/ongoing-sm...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/ongoing-sm...
Are we asking the right questions about school phone bans?
Also: the potential role of blue, green and grey spaces, and tolerance of uncertainty as a life skill.
New Substack: matildagosling.substack.com/p/school-pho...
Also: the potential role of blue, green and grey spaces, and tolerance of uncertainty as a life skill.
New Substack: matildagosling.substack.com/p/school-pho...
April 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Are we asking the right questions about school phone bans?
Also: the potential role of blue, green and grey spaces, and tolerance of uncertainty as a life skill.
New Substack: matildagosling.substack.com/p/school-pho...
Also: the potential role of blue, green and grey spaces, and tolerance of uncertainty as a life skill.
New Substack: matildagosling.substack.com/p/school-pho...
This week’s Substack covers studies on boosting resilience through exercise, stress and depression in teenage girls, and a sleep intervention that works.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
March 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This week’s Substack covers studies on boosting resilience through exercise, stress and depression in teenage girls, and a sleep intervention that works.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
This week’s Life On Mars: a sceptical glance at ‘no mobile phone phobia’, new and unexpected links between socioeconomic status and mental health, and normalised appearance preoccupation.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
March 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This week’s Life On Mars: a sceptical glance at ‘no mobile phone phobia’, new and unexpected links between socioeconomic status and mental health, and normalised appearance preoccupation.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
New Life On Mars: the grandparent effect, new evidence from the DfE on the downsides of universal school mental health interventions, and links between anxiety and sensitivity to noise/light.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
February 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
New Life On Mars: the grandparent effect, new evidence from the DfE on the downsides of universal school mental health interventions, and links between anxiety and sensitivity to noise/light.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
This week’s Life On Mars: the role of working memory in teenage mental health and a training programme that may boost it, the potentially misleading role of personality, and which whole-school interventions actually work.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
February 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This week’s Life On Mars: the role of working memory in teenage mental health and a training programme that may boost it, the potentially misleading role of personality, and which whole-school interventions actually work.
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
matildagosling.substack.com/p/life-on-ma...
Why assigning labels like ‘anxiety’ or ‘depression’ may not be brilliant for teenagers’ mental health – my piece today for Welldoing
welldoing.org/article/teen...
welldoing.org/article/teen...
February 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Why assigning labels like ‘anxiety’ or ‘depression’ may not be brilliant for teenagers’ mental health – my piece today for Welldoing
welldoing.org/article/teen...
welldoing.org/article/teen...
This week’s Life On Mars looks at spikes in diagnoses of some mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, and what these mean; the mental health risks to teenagers of ever-stronger cannabis; and the potential of omega-3 fatty acids.
open.substack.com/pub/matildag...
open.substack.com/pub/matildag...
January 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This week’s Life On Mars looks at spikes in diagnoses of some mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, and what these mean; the mental health risks to teenagers of ever-stronger cannabis; and the potential of omega-3 fatty acids.
open.substack.com/pub/matildag...
open.substack.com/pub/matildag...
My author copies of Teenagers have just arrived! Thanks, @swiftpress.bsky.social
It's out on 30 January.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1800752393
It's out on 30 January.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1800752393
January 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My author copies of Teenagers have just arrived! Thanks, @swiftpress.bsky.social
It's out on 30 January.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1800752393
It's out on 30 January.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1800752393