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Mobile Media Use and Well-being

well-being

Publications

2023

Devos, S., Karsay, K., Eggermont, S., & Vandenbosch, L. (accepted). "Whatever You Do, I Can Do Too:” Disentangling the Daily Relations Between Exposure to Positive Social Media Content, Can Self, and Pressure. Communication Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2206472

accepted

Stevic, A., Schmuck, D., Thomas, M., Karsay, K., & Matthes, J.  (accepted). Distracted children? Nighttime smartphone use, children’s attentional problems, and school performance over time. The Journal of Early Adolescence.

2022

Karsay, K., Schmuck, D., Stevic, A., & Matthes, J. (2022). Sleeping with the smartphone: A panel study investigating parental mediation, adolescents' tiredness, and physical well-being. Behavior and Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2022.2100277

2022

Karsay, K., Matthes, J., Schmuck, D. & Ecklebe, S. (2022). Messaging, posting, and browsing: A mobile experience sampling study investigating youth’s social media use, affective well-being, and loneliness Social Science Computer Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393211058308

2021

Karsay, K., & Vandenbosch, L. (2021). Endlessly connected: Moving forward with agentic perspectives of mobile media (non-)use. Mass Communication and Society. 24(6), 779–794. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2021.1974785

2021

Matthes, J., Karsay, K., Hirsch, M., Stevic, A., & Schmuck, D. (2021). Reflective smartphone disengagement: Conceptualization, measurement, and validation. Computers in Human Behavior, 107078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107078

2021

Stevic, A., Schmuck, D., Koemets, A., Hirsch, M., Karsay, K., Thomas, M., & Matthes, J. (2021). Privacy concerns can stress you out: Investigating the reciprocal relationship between mobile social media privacy concerns and perceived stress. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research.

2021

Stevic, A., Schmuck, Karsay, K., & Matthes, J. (2021). Are smartphones enhancing or displacing face-to-face communication with close ties? A panel study among adults. International Journal of Communication, 16. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/14796

2021

Stevic, A., Schmuck, D., Matthes, J., & Karsay, K. (2021). 'Age matters': A panel study investigating the influence of communicative and passive smartphone use on well-being. Behaviour & Information Technology, 40(2), 176–190. https://doi.org/080/0144929X.2019.1680732

2020

de Lenne, O., Vandenbosch, L., Eggermont S., Karsay, K., & Trekels, T. (2020). Picture-perfect lives on social media: A cross-national study on the role of media ideals in adolescent well-being. Media Psychology, 23, 52–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2018.1554494

2019

Matthes, J., Karsay, K., Schmuck, D., &, Stevic, A. (2019). “Too much to handle”: Impact of mobile social networking sites on information overload, depressive symptoms, and well-being. Computers in Human Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106217

2019

Karsay, K., Schmuck, D., Matthes, J. &, Stevic, A. (2019). Longitudinal effects of excessive smartphone use on stress and loneliness: The moderating role of self-disclosure. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 22, 706–713. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0255

sexualization

Sexualization and Objectification

Publications

Body Image and Stereotypes

Publications

2020

Karsay, K., Matthes, J., & Fröhlich, V. (2020). Gender role portrayals in television advertisements: Do channel characteristics matter? Communications. The European Journal of Communication Research, 45, 28–52. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-2055

2016

Arendt, F., Karsay, K., & Soffried, T. (2016): Werbung mit idealisierten Körperdarstellungen: Effekte auf die Unzufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Körper und die Ablehnung von Schönheitsoperationen [Advertising with idealized body images: Effects on body dissatisfaction and rejection of cosmetic surgery]. Medien Journal, 40, 29–42. https://doi.org/10.24989/medienjournal.v40i1.35

2020

Karsay, K. (2020). Objectification. In J. Van den Bulck, D. Ewoldsen, E. Scharrer, & L. Mares (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. ICAZ/Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119011071.iemp0141

2019

Karsay, K., Matthes, J., Buchsteiner, L. & Grosser, V. (2019). Increasingly sexy? Sexuality and sexual objectification in popular music videos, 1995-2016. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8, 346–357. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000221

2018

Trekels, J., Karsay, K., Vandenbosch, L., & Eggermont, S. (2018). How mass media relate to youth's self-sexualization: Taking a cross-national perspective on rewarded appearance ideals. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47, 1440–1455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0844-3

2018

Karsay, K., Knoll, J., & Matthes, J. (2018). Sexualizing media use and self-objectification: A meta-analysis. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 42, 9–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684317743019

2017

Karsay, K. & Stoisser, F. (2017). "Sexy and I know it" – Effekte sexualisierter Musikvideos auf die Selbst-Objektifizierung und Selbst-Sexualisierung junger Frauen [“Sexy and I know it” – Effects of Sexualizing music videos on young women’s self-objectification and self-sexualization].In B. Metzler, J. Himmelsbach, D., Bertel, A. Riedl, A., & L. Möller (Eds.), Von der Reflexion zur Dekonstruktion? Kategorien, Typen und Stereoype als Gegenstand junger Forschung. Beiträge zur zweiten under.docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation (pp. 175–192). Wien: danzig & unfried.

Body image
Colorful Notebooks

Other research

Other research

Publications

2023

Karsay, K., Camerini, A.-L., & Matthes, J. (2023). COVID-19, Digital Media, and Health: Lessons Learned and the Way Ahead for the Study of Human Communication—Introduction. International Journal of Communication, 17, 623–630. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/14796

2022

Rasmussen, E. E., & Karsay, K. Media and children’s social development. In: P. K. Smith, & C. H. Hart (Eds.): Handbook of Childhood Social Development, 3rd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi-org/10.1002/9781119679028.ch37

2022

Arendt, F. & Karsay, K.. Digital Divide. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, & N. Bol (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley-Blackwell. 

2018

Naderer, B., & Karsay, K. Detecting the persuasive intent of product placement in photographic love stories: Consequences for brand recall and brand evaluation. In R. Kühne, S. Baumgartner, T. Koch, & M. Hofer (Eds.), Youth and Media: Current Perspectives on Media Use and Effects (pp. 115-131). Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845280455-115

2017

Karsay, K. Construct. In J. Matthes, R. Potter & C. S. Davis (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118901731.iecrm0042

2016

Grill, C., & Karsay, K.. Twitter et les élections européennes. Une comparaison des agendas politiques en ligne dans huit États membres de l’Union européenne. [Tweeting about the 2014 European Parliamentary elections. Comparing the political online agendas in eight EU-member states]. In P. Maarek (Eds.), La communication politique des Européenes de 2014: Pour ou contre l’Europe? (pp. 76-97). L’Harmattan.

2015

Haas, H., Herczeg, P., & Karsay, K. Werbung – Ethik – Moral [Advertising – ethics – morality]. In G. Siegert, W. Wirth, P. Weber, & J. Lischka, (Eds.), Handbuch Werbeforschung (pp. 57-77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18916-1_3

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