Vincent Paquin

Le numérique continue de transformer les habitudes culturelles des Québécois

Près de 96 % utilisent Internet à des fins personnelles, et 89 % sont actifs sur les réseaux sociaux.

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support ...

Do phone restrictions improve teens' mental health? 📱

No, according to this cross-sectional study: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Of 30 schools in the UK, attending those that restrict phone use was not associated with better mental health.

A very inspiring book!

Opinion: TikTok is still here. What can parents do? While we may think that the best thing for kids’ mental health is to avoid social media, the reality is more complicated.

TikTok is still here. What can parents do?

Avoiding social media altogether is not going to help protect young people.

Our op-ed in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-e...

#TikTok #PsychSciSky

My public health students @mcgill.ca were lucky to meet @stephanienolen.bsky.social today, and learn about how journalists cover global and public health and why journalism matters, now more than ever

Merci beaucoup, Stephanie 🙏🏽

Interesting new pub @collabrapsychology.bsky.social on how pre-registration have impacts on theory development by encouraging scientists to think more deeply earlier on in a project.

Not a meta-scientist but, I think this tracks on my personal experience.

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Adolescent girls’ explanations of high rates of low mood and anxiety in their population: a co-produced qualitative study - BMC Women's Health Background From early adolescence, girls face greater risk of experiencing low mood and anxiety relative to boys, with recent evidence that this may be worsening. There is a paucity of mental health r...

We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse.

But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know.

So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Regression models indicating factors associated with institutional trust

Structural disadvantage and social isolation disproportionately affect people with mental health problems and may erode trust in institutions.
Our new preprint highlights the importance of addressing these factors to foster a more trusting society:
doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health? Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.

I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.

newrepublic.com/article/1903...

Un étudiant corrige à nouveau la signalisation autour du REM On n’est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même, veut l’adage. Et Dashiell Friesen l’a bien compris. Le jeune étudiant en graphisme a décidé pour la deuxième fois d’améliorer la signalisation déficiente ...

Dans @lapresse.ca : @mashdash.bsky.social strikes again! ⬆️↗️

Aux Halles de la gare : « Au total, il a donc installé sept grands panneaux indiquant clairement où aller pour prendre un train, le métro, un autobus et même pour se rendre à des rues à proximité »

#remmtl #transportcollectif #Wayfinding

Dossier | Clic Santé | Par ici le privé (4 articles) Clic Santé propose une majorité de rendez-vous dans des cliniques privées, pour des services payants, montre une analyse de La Presse. Québec, qui dit vouloir endiguer la place du privé en santé, comp...

Par ici le privé: Clic Santé propose une majorité de rendez-vous dans des cliniques privées, pour des services payants, montre une analyse de La Presse. Une enquête de Charles-Éric Blais-Poulin et
@jeanhuguesroy.bsky.social lp.ca/4wlcEd via @lapresse.ca

Regression models indicating factors associated with institutional trust

Structural disadvantage and social isolation disproportionately affect people with mental health problems and may erode trust in institutions.
Our new preprint highlights the importance of addressing these factors to foster a more trusting society:
doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Some recent work, for the Bluesky crowd,

A review of my new book, The Avatar Faculty

doi.org/10.1093/jaar...

Title of the article: "Causal Manipulations of Social Media Use: Key Methodological Considerations". Authors and abstract

What is the effect of reducing social media use or abstaining from it entirely? Many experimental studies have examined this question but found mixed results.

I recommend this preprint that identifies methodological issues in current research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Une image de contrôleur de jeu vidéo avec le texte «Projet Jeux en action»

Vous avez entre 16 et 25 ans, jouez aux jeux vidéo, et résidez au Québec? Nous recherchons des participant.e.s pour compléter un questionnaire anonyme en ligne. Une carte cadeau est offerte pour toute participation.
Pour en savoir plus: portal.rimuhc.ca/cim/redcap/s...

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a microphone and a glass of tea ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a microphone and a glass of tea

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🎇ANNONCE!🎇

L’édition 2025 du colloque annuel de l’ACÉJ/CGSA sera un événement hybride co-organisé par le TAG Lab à l’Université Concordia à Montréal, Québec, du 7 au 10 juin. Le thème cette année est « Arrêts ».

La date limite de soumission est le vendredi 13 décembre 2024 à 23h59 HNE

New preprint on fan cultures in mental health care 📺

osf.io/4b3md

Taking the furry fandom as a case study, we discuss how identity, technology, stigma, and community interface with fan culture and mental health — and how clinicians can explore these aspects of a person’s background.

New preprint on fan cultures in mental health care 📺

osf.io/4b3md

Taking the furry fandom as a case study, we discuss how identity, technology, stigma, and community interface with fan culture and mental health — and how clinicians can explore these aspects of a person’s background.

Good to be able to monitor this!

I agree. Our study could not reliably distinguish paranoia from mistrust that is fully grounded in external events. In both cases, however, I find it intriguing to consider whether experiences on social media can be leveraged to promote a person’s sense of trust and, if relevant, decrease paranoia.

Media Use and Its Associations With Paranoia in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: Ecological Momentary Assessment Background: Paranoia is a spectrum of fear-related experiences that spans diagnostic categories and is influenced by social and cognitive factors. The extent to which social media and other types of m...

Our paper on media use and paranoia is now published:

doi.org/10.2196/59198

We found that social media use was associated with subsequently lower paranoia in a sample of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

#PsychSciSky

New preprint by @bsiepe.bsky.social & our WARN-D lab.

We collected information on sleep, tiredness & stress with both EMA and sensor data, and try to find out to which degree these are associated contemporaneously in a large dataset (n~800) with many timepoints (t~360).

Brief 🧵

Hello Blue Skyers "Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities" is currently available for pre-order! My contribution is in spectacular company, as you'll see.

The book has been skillfully edited by
@gabrielh.bsky.social, Anouk Lang, and @sjappleford.bsky.social

Thanks for the shares!

The Kid(‘s Parents) Are Not Alright How the panic surrounding social media and smartphones distract us from a far more substantial cause of the youth mental health crisis

"Although the reasons for the recent rise in MH problems among youth in the US is undoubtedly multifactorial, I believe that the crisis among parents that has unfolded over the past 2 decades is the #1 contributor..."

#mentalhealth #digitalwellbeing

craigsewall.substack.com/p/the-kids-p...

Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife - Nature Communications Here, the authors show that elevated loneliness in adolescence and increasing loneliness over three decades is associated with heightened conspiracy beliefs in midlife.

Could loneliness lead to conspiracy beliefs? Our new study published in Nature Communications reveals that those experiencing loneliness in adolescence and who remain lonely into adulthood are more likely to endorse conspiracist worldviews. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PsychSciSky

Adolescent Media Use and Psychotic Experiences This cohort study examines data for participants of the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development to analyze adolescent trajectories of media use for

Is adolescent media use associated with psychotic experiences (PEs)? 🎮

Our new paper does not provide evidence that media use is an independent risk factor for PEs.

Instead, media use & PEs seem to be (modestly) associated through shared risk factors.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Screen Time for Kids Is Fine! Unless It's Not Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social media.

"And rather than looking through the lens of our own experience as adults, we should center the experience of children and ask them what would make them happier."

www.wired.com/story/pete-e...