Images of individuals' physical appearance shared on social media platforms are often accompanied by affirming comments that praise their attractiveness, such as "you look amazing!". In a recent research led by Nikol Kvardová, Hana Macháčková, and Hayriye Gulec, we delved into the impact of these social media comments on adolescents' body dissatisfaction. Our study was conducted as part of the FUTURE project and published in the journal Body Image.

In our recent study we examined associations for adolescents' smartphone use and multiple sleep outcomes such as bedtime, sleep duration and sleep quality. This is important topic because nowadays many parents share concerns about how smartphones impact their children's sleep and wonder if they should implement some parenting strategies related to their children's smartphone use before sleep. So what should they do?

In the context of sexual content on the internet and adolescents, media often talk about drastic pornography and anonymous predators who send sexually explicit messages to adolescents and demand the same material in return. However, research suggests that such cases are relatively rare, and in most cases, adolescents encounter sexual content and so-called sexting in other contexts.

Hayriye Gülec and David Šmahel's latest research focused on adolescents who use so-called mHealth apps, or, in other words, apps that monitor the user's health. Using a representative sample of Czech adolescents, they found that more than half of the respondents use mHealth apps. What are their characteristics? Read today's blog!

In a recently published study, we examined parenting strategies related to adolescents’ online interactions with other people. Some parents tend to be more restrictive, and some try to explain to their children how to stay safe on the internet. But how are those strategies connected to how adolescents behave?

Today we celebrate the Safer Internet Day! It is an initiative to bring awareness to online safety, supported by the European Comission. As you might know from our research, it is a topic dear to our heart. That’s why we share our latest insights on the issues that adolescents face nowadays.

For years, anonymity has been used to both specify the unique character of online interaction and differentiate it from offline conditions. We are living in the age of social media, interact using our profiles, seeing continuing augmentations of online and offline social spaces. In these conditions, what does anonymity actually mean?

Hayriye Güleç and colleagues examined attitudes towards food and depressive symptoms in a group of LGBTIQ people from Turkey. The results were published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. In today's blog, you can read what Hayriye and colleagues found!