Loneliness across time and space - Nature Reviews Psychology People feel lonely when their social needs are not met, which can lead to long-term health issues. In this Review, Luhmann et al. summarize empirical findings on differences in the prevalence of lonel...

A good recent reference for this: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I would assume it is constant but it might also have increased in recent years through algorithms, manfluencers, and similar. It's a pity you don't have data on that, I always think we're missing that part of the story when looking at these differences (which have been there for a long time)

Interesting findings! I would also consider something more fundamental here: boys' emotional stoicism and (lack of) emotional literacy which makes them less capable or likely to share ill-being. Do you have something like "traditional masculinity" that you could use as a moderator?

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It was a pleasure to present my work w/ @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social (@mediapsychologylab.bsky.social) on meritocratic masculinities in music, resonance processes, and youth's mental health.

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Fascinating, looking forward to reading more!

Maybe we need to update how we conceptualize filter bubbles in the streaming era? Genres themselves also change by becoming more hybrid (thinking here about discussions on genre innovation, such as in Kim & Askin, 2024: doi.org/10.1177/0003...).

Congratulations on this excellent work! I wonder if the results show us more that we are all omnivore on streaming platforms because there is so much content available, and whether we can actually say something about filter bubbles by just looking at genres (rather than content)?

My book review 📚 of Dunkel & Schiller *Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe* is out on @ecpr-ead.bsky.social e-Extreme! This is a rich and engaging book, OA here: doi.org/10.4324/9781...

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This article is part of my PhD “MainStreaming Success” (www.lucacarbone.com/files/diss.pdf), where I explore how streaming platforms construct and distribute success narratives and how contemporary adolescents consume them in personalized media environments. More soon—stay tuned! the-end/

3. Temporally-sensitive designs. To understand music narrative effects, we need to disentangle short- vs. long-term effects and better track how adolescents select, engage with, and reflect on different music products (e.g., videos, lyrics, social media) over time. 9/

2. Similarity matters. Based on SCT and resonance theory, we expected adolescents to identify more with and to learn from artists who share their lived experiences. While we focused on gender, key gaps emerged in race and class. Future work should consider age, race, ethnicity, and class. 8/

1. Selection, recommendation, and habituation. Given today’s diverse music content, we need to better understand how adolescents engage with heterogeneous narratives—especially how they select, get recommended, and become desensitized to performance-oriented messages. 7/

These findings shed new light on music narrative effects in today’s streaming era. In the discussion, we reflect on several future directions to best capture music narrative effects. Here, we particularly focus on three aspects that would benefit future research in this area. 6/

Findings show music preferences are fragmented (only 12% kept the same favorite artist) and wishful identification was low (2.14/5). Performance beliefs were common (music: 2.4/5; self-concept: 3.6/5), but adolescents did not internalize a performance-oriented self-concept from music. 5/

To examine how exposure to performance messages in favorite artists’ music relates to adolescents’ self-concept, we ran a 3-wave panel over one year with 405 Belgian adolescents. We used RI-CLPM with multi-group moderation to separate within- and between-person effects 📈. 4/

Music—especially from favorite artists 🎧—is a key source of performance messages for adolescents. Meta-analyses show that music consumption is linked to message-consistent beliefs, but most research is experimental or cross-sectional. We know little about how music shapes cognition over time 🧠. 3/

Contemporary adolescents live in societies that increasingly reward a view of the self where one's worth depends on their performance, whether at school or in their relationships. Internalizing such messages may empower some adolescents 💪, while leaving others more anxious and pressured ⚠️. 2/

The Internalization of a Performance-Oriented Self-Concept Among Adolescents Through Their Favorite Music Artists Music is a highly popular yet understudied element of adolescents’ media and cultural consumption that functions as an influential agent of socialization. Past work has shown the presence of perfor...

Excited to share our latest preregistered study with Christoph Klimmt and @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social about the role of adolescents’ favorite music artists for the internalization of a performance-oriented self-concept! 🎶 doi.org/10.1080/1520... 1/

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This dissertation was conducted as part of the @erc.europa.eu project MIMIc, a special thanks goes to @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social, @jasminarosic.bsky.social, and @gvanhoffelen.bsky.social for riding these years together and for making this dissertation possible!

Thank you Valerie!:)

A special thanks to my supervisor @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social and to my wonderful colleagues at the @mediapsychologylab.bsky.social who guided, supported, and inspired me throughout these years ❤️

Honored and stoked to be awarded the best dissertation award from the Children, Adolescents, and Media (CAM) division of @icahdq.bsky.social ! 🎉

A special thanks to all the wonderful scholars I had the pleasure to work with for these papers/presentations:
Dr. Edward Noon
Prof. @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social
Prof. Christoph Klimmt
Prof. Julian Schaap

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