Overall, the findings highlight the complexity of implementing mobile phone policies in schools and point to a need for greater consistency in both policy and digital safeguarding practice. 3/3

We found that schools with policies were more likely to report incidents, suggesting policy presence may shape reporting. But wide variation in policy content and inconsistent “ban” terminology may undermine effective safeguarding. 2/3

<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Smartphones/social media have been hailed as offering educational benefits, but widespread concerns highlight multiple negative effects, including for learning and well-being. Some countr.....

New paper out today! 📱🏫With co-authors Rob Dallison, Pete Montgomery and Lisa Henderson, we examined how digital safeguarding incidents in schools vary by mobile phone policy. 1/3 doi.org/10.1111/camh...

Super exciting Jo- congratulations!!

Thank you to co-authors Bernadka Dubicka, Hannah Kirsop and Lisa Henderson for their work on this!

Moving forwards, future studies should employ validated measures and move beyond frequency-based metrics of social media to explore how content, patterns of problematic use, and the timing of use all influence sleep longitudinally.

There was a heavy reliance on self-reports and non-validated measures of social media use and sleep, which restricts our conclusions.

The strongest negative effects were seen for problematic social media use and excessive use around bedtime, and this tended to manifest in later bedtimes and delayed sleep onset.

We found overall a negative impact of social media on sleep in young people, however this association was nuanced and complex.

The longitudinal effects of social media on sleep among youth: A scoping review Social media has become an integral part of our everyday lives, with nearly 5 billion users worldwide. Its ubiquity has sparked concerns about the pot…

Thrilled to have our new scoping review examining the longitudinal effects of social media on sleep in youth in Computers in Human Behavior Reports www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really enjoyed speaking about my recent work for the Research Room podcast!

Another exciting Research Spotlight Blog to cap off this week.
Explore how our writer has been looking at the relationship between mood and sleep using both real-world and lab-based methods.
www.circadianmentalhealth.org/post/tired-m...
#sleepresearch #ECRs

Thanks to my wonderful supervisors/co-authors for helping get this thesis introduction into a review! @sacairney.bsky.social, Cade McCall and Lisa Henderson!

The share link is free to access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljc%7E6TB... (happy to share privately after that too!)

Paper 3/4 of my PhD is out! 🎉 Published in Neuropsychologia’s special issue on Sleep, Memory & Emotion - a review from my thesis introduction on how sleep helps disentangle emotion processing.

Great to be at my first @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference today and tomorrow! I'll be presenting this afternoon on the preliminary findings from our smartphone detox studies in adolescents in Online Health (2).

Thanks Nina for your wonderful editing too!! :)

Really enjoyed writing this blog post for the @thementalelf.bsky.social. A really interesting study with lots of discussion points (see thread)!

Massive thanks to my co-authors for their contribution to this work! Cade McCall, Annette Brose, Lisa Henderson & @sacairney.bsky.social.

Overall, these findings suggest that sleep quality and adaptive emotion regulation hold independent roles in reducing emotional inertia. Both are key to emotional wellbeing, but don't rely on each other.

Interestingly, the association between greater adaptive ER strategy use and lower NA inertia was observed regardless of participants' sleep quality.

We found that better sleep quality was linked to lower NA inertia. In other words, good sleep helps reduce the persistence of negative affect over time.

In this online study (N = 245), we used a validated film clip task to index NA inertia. Sleep quality and use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies were measured using questionnaires.

We know that good sleep and using adaptive emotion regulation strategies can help reduce negative affect persistence (NA inertia). But do they work in concert to reduce NA inertia?

Emotional inertia- when negative feelings persist over time- has been linked to poorer wellbeing. But we know little about the mechanisms underlying this link.

Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality* Emotional inertia (i.e. the tendency for emotions to persist over time) is robustly associated with lower wellbeing. Yet, we know little about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Good qual...

I'm excited to share that the second study of my PhD, exploring the links between emotion regulation, sleep quality, and emotional inertia, has been published in Cognition & Emotion!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congrats Ashley!

Panellists at the Channel 4 documentary screening.

Had a great day at the screening for the documentary we've been involved in for the past few months on the impacts of smartphone bans and social media. Airing on Channel 4 on the 11th and 12th Dec at 8pm!

Is a sleep intervention delivered by non-expert practitioners feasible for youth mental health? https://buff.ly/4dRXRPP

Emma Sullivan finds that CBT for insomnia (delivered by assistant psychologists) is a feasible intervention for young people w mental health & sleep difficulties.

#CBTi #Sleep

Congrats to Dr. Emma Sullivan who passed the viva for her thesis on the cognitive mechanisms by which sleep supports emotion regulation and mental health.