Eleonora Noselli, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Elena Sajno, Giuseppe Riva
{"title":"PAVE: Planning Assessment in a Virtual Environment for Evaluating Executive Functions in the Elderly.","authors":"Eleonora Noselli, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Elena Sajno, Giuseppe Riva","doi":"10.1177/21522715251386361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251386361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145238440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elisa Rabarbari, Giulia Magni, Claudia Repetto, Giuseppe Riva
{"title":"OVER-LON: Overview Virtual Effect for Relieving LONeliness.","authors":"Elisa Rabarbari, Giulia Magni, Claudia Repetto, Giuseppe Riva","doi":"10.1177/21522715251386362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251386362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145212002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Po-Ching Huang, Chao-Ying Chen, I-Hua Chen, Ji-Kang Chen, Iqbal Pramukti, Rwei-Ling Yu, Jung-Sheng Chen, Chi Hsien Huang, Xue-Lian Wang, Amir H Pakpour, Marc N Potenza, Chung-Ying Lin
{"title":"Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of Video Addiction Scales: The Chinese YouTube Addiction Scale for Taiwan and Hong Kong.","authors":"Po-Ching Huang, Chao-Ying Chen, I-Hua Chen, Ji-Kang Chen, Iqbal Pramukti, Rwei-Ling Yu, Jung-Sheng Chen, Chi Hsien Huang, Xue-Lian Wang, Amir H Pakpour, Marc N Potenza, Chung-Ying Lin","doi":"10.1177/21522715251378312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251378312","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the second most frequently visited website globally, YouTube attracts numerous people who spend significant amounts of time on the platform, potentially leading to problematic consequences. To investigate the underlying mechanism of problematic video-based social media use, the present study translated and culturally adapted the <i>YouTube Addiction Scale</i> (YAS) into two Chinese versions for people in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across regions (Taiwan and Hong Kong) and sex (male and female) were further validated. Participants from Taiwan (<i>N</i> = 887) and Hong Kong (<i>N</i> = 1,008) completed an online survey comprising the <i>YAS</i>, <i>Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders</i> (<i>ACSID-11</i>), and <i>Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale</i> (<i>BSMAS</i>) between September 2023 and June 2024. The results supported adequate concurrent validity of YAS with the ACSID-11 and BSMAS. A robust single-factorial structure with strong factor loadings and good internal consistency was observed among the two Chinese versions. Measurement invariance across regional and sex groups was also supported by all fit indices. Accordingly, the current findings suggest that the YAS can be used as a validated instrument to assess individuals' problematic YouTube use in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Future studies may investigate the psychosocial influences of problematic use of video-based social media platforms or use the scale in studies of active and passive use of social media.</p>","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145198485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hot or Not? Implicit and Explicit Attitudes of Sexualized Profiles on Tinder.","authors":"Morgan E Ellithorpe,Laila Kunaish,Holly Wright","doi":"10.1177/21522715251382736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251382736","url":null,"abstract":"Research on dating applications relies heavily on explicitly measured evaluations of potential partners; however, the quick swiping mechanism of Tinder and other popular dating applications may rely on more spontaneous evaluations. We asked heterosexual U.S. undergraduates (n = 135) to rate opposite-gender Tinder profiles using both an implicit reaction time task and explicit self-report. Men had more positive implicit evaluations of sexualized profiles compared with women. Men also showed an implicitly measured preference for sexualized profiles over nonsexualized profiles, while women showed the opposite preference. However, the genders did not differ in evaluation of sexualized or nonsexualized profiles in explicitly measured evaluations. This study highlights the value of using implicit measures when conducting research on mobile dating.","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily McKinley,David M Markowitz,Rui Zhu,Brandon Van Der Heide
{"title":"Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data.","authors":"Emily McKinley,David M Markowitz,Rui Zhu,Brandon Van Der Heide","doi":"10.1177/21522715251379987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251379987","url":null,"abstract":"Despite widespread discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, little work has objectively measured how often people use this technology in the wild. The present article collected up to 90 days of web-browsing data from students (Study 1: N = 499) and those in the general public (Study 2: N = 455), quantifying how often people used AI and evaluating the psychological correlates of such use. Upon coding 4.1 million websites in Study 1 and 9.9 million websites in Study 2, the evidence suggested that AI use was relatively infrequent, totaling 1% of student web-browsing and 0.44% of general public web-browsing, on average. The most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were aversive personality traits (e.g., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), albeit the traits were differentially associated with AI use across studies. Demographics were largely unrelated to AI use across studies. Finally, we observed that self-reported AI use and actual AI use were only moderately correlated (ρ = 0.329), suggesting limitations in subjective measures of media use. These findings provide some of the first behavioral measurements of AI in naturalistic settings and establish important benchmarks for understanding the individual differences associated with AI adoption.","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145103526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Zhai,Ruimei Sun,L W Lam,Chester C S Kam,Robin Chark,Anise M S Wu
{"title":"Work Hard, Use Harder? The Longitudinal Association Between Work Addiction and Social Media Addiction in Full-Time Workers by a Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis.","authors":"Jing Zhai,Ruimei Sun,L W Lam,Chester C S Kam,Robin Chark,Anise M S Wu","doi":"10.1177/21522715251379749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251379749","url":null,"abstract":"Social media addiction (SMA) has become a global public issue in recent decades. Considering the increasing use of social media in the workplace as a communication and productivity tool, workers may suffer a higher risk of SMA. Workers are also a notable population susceptible to work addiction (WA) due to the fierce competition in the labor market. By analyzing temporal associations between WA and SMA as well as their symptoms (e.g., salience), our study advances knowledge regarding comorbidity between these behavioral addictions and relationships among their specific symptoms. In a sample of 1,100 workers (Mage = 32.69, standard deviation [SDage] = 7.76, female = 60.5 percent), we conducted a two-wave, longitudinal survey to examine the relationship(s) between WA and SMA (i.e., construct level) and the association(s) between their specific symptoms (i.e., symptom level) by modeling a cross-lagged panel model and a cross-lagged panel network (CLPN). Both a high prevalence of SMA (7.3 percent) and WA (16.9 percent), as well as their co-occurrence, were found. Results of the cross-lagged panel model and CLPN consistently showed the reciprocal predictions between SMA and WA. Results of CLPN analysis also identified the stronger positive prospective effects of WA on SMA and highlighted the most influential roles of WA-tolerance in predicting SMA, especially SMA-relapse. Besides, mutual but negative predictions between their salience and relapse symptoms were noted in CLPN. Our findings extend the knowledge of the bidirectionality of behavioral addictions and provide practical implications regarding cost-effective interventions for workers' co-occurring behavioral addictions.","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":"506 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145083312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Feedback Loop: Is AI Teaching Us to Talk Like Machines?","authors":"Brenda K Wiederhold","doi":"10.1177/21522715251379730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251379730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145058928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tyler Prochnow,Rithanya Senthil,Allison Poulos,Meg S Patterson,Jamilia Blake,Philip Massey
{"title":"Virtual Bonds; Real Emotions: Systematic Review Exploring Online Social Connections and Adolescent Mental Health.","authors":"Tyler Prochnow,Rithanya Senthil,Allison Poulos,Meg S Patterson,Jamilia Blake,Philip Massey","doi":"10.1177/21522715251377377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251377377","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescent mental health issues have been increasing globally, with one in seven youth experiencing mental health disorders. While social connectedness traditionally serves as a protective factor, the widespread adoption of online platforms has fundamentally transformed how adolescents build and maintain social relationships. This systematic review aimed to synthesize existing literature on the relationship between online social connections and mental health among adolescents aged 10-18 years. The review specifically examined how the structure, function, and quality of online interactions influence mental health outcomes, guided by the U.S. Surgeon General's framework on social connection. A systematic search was conducted in January 2024 using PsycINFO, MEDLINE, PubMed, and Web of Science databases. Studies were included if they measured mental health outcomes, assessed online social connection, analyzed relationships between these variables, and focused on adolescents ages 10-18 years. From an initial search of 3,745 articles, 23 met inclusion criteria after screening. The review revealed complex, bidirectional relationships between online social connections and adolescent mental health. Online-only friendships demonstrated a protective function, particularly for vulnerable youth experiencing suicidal ideation. Social capital in online contexts significantly influenced well-being, with higher online social capital associated with positive outcomes, especially in gaming environments. Gender differences emerged in social media effects, with passive use negatively impacting girls. Online social connections present both opportunities and risks for adolescent mental health. While digital platforms can provide valuable support and self-expression opportunities, particularly for vulnerable youth, they also carry risks related to social comparison and inadequate support.","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dumbphones in a Smart World: Why Some Are Embracing a Low-Tech Life.","authors":"Brenda K Wiederhold","doi":"10.1177/21522715251379771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251379771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145058958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Casie H Morgan,Lindsay M Stager,Alexandra N Brockdorf,Nashalys K Salamanca,Stephanie Amaya,Christin A Mujica,Kelly Cue Davis,Ruschelle Leone,Lindsay M Orchowski,Amanda K Gilmore,Cristina López
{"title":"Sleep-Related Concerns Mediate the Association Between Cyber-Sexual Victimization and Psychological Distress Among Diverse University Students.","authors":"Casie H Morgan,Lindsay M Stager,Alexandra N Brockdorf,Nashalys K Salamanca,Stephanie Amaya,Christin A Mujica,Kelly Cue Davis,Ruschelle Leone,Lindsay M Orchowski,Amanda K Gilmore,Cristina López","doi":"10.1177/21522715251375417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251375417","url":null,"abstract":"Experiences of cyber-sexual violence, that is, sexually aggressive behaviors committed through digital interfaces, are associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and suicidality. Several variables, including sleep, also contribute to PTSS and suicidality risk. This cross-sectional study expands what is already known about cyber-sexual violence and psychological distress by investigating associations between cyber-sexual victimization, sleep-related concerns, PTSS, and suicidality among diverse university students. A total of 2,160 university students aged 18-25 (Mage = 20.09 years, 68.8 percent women) completed assessments of demographic variables, cyber-sexual victimization, PTSS, suicidality, and sleep-related concerns. Students with marginalized sexual or gender identities reported significantly higher levels of cyber-sexual victimization, sleep-related concerns, PTSS, and suicidality compared with heterosexual and cisgender students. Two mediation analyses were conducted with cyber-sexual victimization as the independent variable, PTSS and suicidality as the outcomes, sleep-related concerns as a mediator, and gender identity and sexual orientation as covariates. Cyber-sexual victimization was directly related to PTSS (β = 0.37, CI = [3.88, 4.86]) and sleep-related concerns mediated this association (β = 0.07, CI = [0.06, 0.09]). Cyber-sexual victimization was also directly related to suicidality (β = 0.31, CI = [1.30, 1.71]) and sleep-related concerns mediated this association (β = 0.05, CI = [0.03, 0.06]) as well. These findings highlight cyber-sexual violence as a risk factor for poorer psychological well-being among university students. In addition, sleep-related concerns helped explain these associations, suggesting that evidence-based sleep interventions may improve psychological distress in the context of trauma-related symptoms.","PeriodicalId":10872,"journal":{"name":"Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145031870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}