Researchers of the EU-funded DIGYMATEX Project, Alvaro E. Arenas and Pouye Yazdi, have published their paper entitled “Towards a model of technology usage and digital maturity in children: A grounded-theory approach”.
DIGYMATEX partner’s research: Instagram users see followers and likes similar to money and food
Instagram users’ patterns of behaviour related to receiving additional followers and likes are similar to general behaviour patterns related to receiving additional money and food, according to research carried out by DIGYMATEX research partner.
Constant engagement with devices can impact a child’s brain structure and behavior
DIGYMATEX special webinar hosted three world-renowned specialists in child and adolescent development, to discuss the impact of digital devices on maturity in children and adolescents.
Reformulating children psychosocial maturity to cater a digitalised society
Together with the partners from the DIGYMATEX consortium researchers from the University of Vienna, provide a psychological view on the use of digital technology by kids.
DIGYMATEX researchers link smartphone use and impulsive behaviour
Researchers with the DIGYMATEX project at the Freie Universität Berlin, Tim Schulz van Endert and Peter N. C. Mohr, found a positive relationship between hours of smartphone use and impulsive decision making, through an experiment focusing on delayed gratification.
DIGYMATEX study links rise in kids’ mental health problems to digital device use
DIGYMATEX researchers Melissa Bohnert and Dr Pablo Gracia, both of Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Sociology, recently published a study in Child Indicators Research Journal.