2025

• Kvardova, N., Machackova, H., Maes, Ch. & Vandenbosch, L. (2025). Navigating Beauty Standards on Social Media: Impact of Appearance Activity on Adolescents’ Body Dissatisfaction. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02159-y

2024

• Kvardova, N., Maes, C., & Vandenbosch, L. (2024). BoPo online, BoPo offline? Engagement with body positivity posts, positive appearance comments on social media, and adolescents’ appearance-related prosocial tendencies. Computers in Human Behavior, 162, 108471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108471

2023

• Bedrosova, M., Kvardova, N., & Machackova, H. (2023). Bystanders’ Victim Blaming and Minimizing Consequences of Weight-Based Cyberhate Attacks: The Roles of anti-Fat Attitudes, Body-Positive Online Content, and Gender. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(9-10), 6915-6941. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221140037   https://osf.io/sxkg4
• Kvardová, N., Lacko, D. & Machackova, H. (2023). The validity of the Czech version of Body Appreciation Scale-2 for adolescents. Journal of Eating Disordorders, 11(176), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00897-7 https://osf.io/ybkvn/
• Kvardova, N., Macháčková, H., & Güleç, H. (2023). ‘I wish my body looked like theirs!’: How positive appearance comments on social media impact adolescents’ body dissatisfaction. Body Image, 47, 101630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.101630  https://osf.io/upxjn/ https://osf.io/4gjky
• Lokajová, A., Šmahel, D., & Kvardová, N. (2023). Health-related social media use and COVID-19 anxiety in adolescence: health anxiety as covariate and moderator. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1079730

• Svestkova, A., Kvardova, N., & Šmahel, D. (2023). Health anxiety in adolescents: The roles of online health information seeking and parental health anxiety. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02689-8

2022

• Gulec, H., Kvardova, N., & Smahel, D. (2022). Adolescents' disease- and fitness-related online health information seeking behaviors: The roles of perceived trust in online health information, eHealth literacy, and parental factors. Computers in Human Behavior, 134, 107318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107318
• Kvardova, N., Machackova, H., & Smahel, D. (2022). A moderated mediation model for body-positive online content and body image among adolescents. Body Image, 42, 370-374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.07.002 https://osf.io/pv53r

2021

• Kvardova, N., Smahel, D., Machackova, H., & Subrahmanyam, K. (2021). Who is exposed to harmful online content? The role of risk and protective factors among Czech, Finnish, and Spanish adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50, 2294-2310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01422-2

2020

• Kvardova, N., Machackova, H., & Smahel, D. (2020). The direct and indirect effects of online social support, neuroticism, and web content internalization on the drive for thinness among women visiting health-oriented websites. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072416

2019

• Kvardová, N., Radimecká, M., Drápalová, M., & Širůček, J. (2019). Reliabilita a konstruktová validita metody Relationship Assessment Scale. TESTFÓRUM, 7(12), 17-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5817/TF2019-12-12123

2025

• Smahel, D., Šaradín Lebedíková, M., Lacko, D., Kvardová, N., Mýlek, V., Tkaczyk, M., Svestkova, A., Gulec, H., Hrdina, M., Machackova, H., & Dedkova, L. (2025). Tech & Teens: Insights from 15 Studies on the Impact of Digital Technology on Well-Being. EU Kids Online. 

2023

• Kardefelt Winther, D., Stoilova, M., Büchi, M., Twesigye, R., Smahel, D., Bedrosova, M., Kvardova, N., & Livingstone, S. (2023). Children’s exposure to hate messages and violent images online. UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. 

2019

• Kvardová, N., Valkovičová, N., & Šmahel, D. (2019). Do Mobile Phone Bans Work? Rules and the use of technology in school in relation to adolescents' behavior. Research report from primary and secondary schools. Brno: Masaryk University.

2024

• Jaron Bedrosova, M., Kvardova, N., Machackova, H., & Matthes, J. (2024). What affects bystanders’ responses towards cyberhate in social media news? An experimental study of hate against plus-size people. Presented at the 28th Workshop on Aggression, Nottingham, United Kingdom.  Available here.
• Křížová, N., Kvardová, N., & Macháčková, H. (2024, June 11-13). Empowerment or Pressure? Exploring the Impact of Female Body Depictions in Body Positivity InstagramPosts on Self-Objectification [Poster presentation] Presented at Appearance Matters Conference 10, Bristol, United Kingdom. Available here.
• Kvardová, N. (2024, July 16-19). Addressing theory crisis in (media) psychology with informative hypotheses. In R. M. Kuiper (chair), *Recent Advances in (non-)Bayesian informative hypothesis evaluation*. [Symposium]. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Kvardová, N., Machackova, H., Maes, C., & Vadenbosch, L. (2024, September 25-28). Navigating Beauty Standards on Social Media: Impact of Appearance-Focused Activity on Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction. Presented at the 19th Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence 2024, Limassol, Cyprus. Available here.

2023

• Kvardová, N. (2023, June 22-24). #BodyPositivity or #BodyNeutrality on social media: Which one is more beneficial for body image? [Poster presentation] Presented at SIPS 2023, Padova, Italy. Available here.
• Svestkova, A., Kvardova, N., & Smahel, D. (2023, September 4-8). Health anxiety in adolescents: the roles of online health information seeking and parental health anxiety. [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 37th Annual Conference of European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Bremen, Germany. Available here.

2022

• Bedrošová, M., Kvardová, N., & Macháčková, H. (2022). Bystanders’ victim blaming and minimizing consequences of weight-based cyberhate attacks: The roles of anti-fat attitudes, body-positive online content, and gender. Presented at 26th Workshop on Aggression, Jena, Germany. 
• Kvardová, N., Macháčková, H., & Güleç, H. (2022, October 19-22). "I wish I'd have a body like that!": The effect of social media comments endorsing appearance ideals on body dissatisfaction of adolescents. Presented at the 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA), Aarhus, Denmark. Available here.

2021

• Gulec, H., Kvardová, N., & Šmahel, D. (2021, November). The Roles of Trust, E-health Literacy and Parental Influence in Online Health Information-Seeking Behaviors of Adolescents. Presented at Cyberspace conference, Brno, Czech Republic.
• Kvardova, N., Smahel, D., Machackova, H., Garmendia, M., Kotilainen, S., & Okkonen, J. (2021, September). Who is exposed to harmful online content? The role of risk and protective factors among Czech, Finnish, and Spanish adolescents. Presented at the 8th European Communication Conference (ECREA), online.

2019

• Kvardová, N., Macháčková, H., & Šmahel, D. (2019, October). The direct and indirect effects of online social support, neuroticism, and web content internalization on drive for thinness among visitors of health-oriented websites. Presented at the conference (Re-)Connecting Perspectives on Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction (ICSI 2019), Tilburg, Netherlands.
• Valkovicova, N., Kvardova, N., Smahel, D., & Machackova, H. (2019, November). Do Mobile Phone Bans Work? An Analysis of Phone-use Rules in Czech Schools. Presented at Cyberspace conference, Brno, Czech Republic.
  

2023

• Kvardová, N. in magazine article. (2023, December 1). Hendy, E. When Compliments Just Make You Feel… Worse. Vice. Available here.