- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Media Influence and Health
- Online and Blended Learning
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Media and Politics
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Mind wandering and attention
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
Oklahoma State University
2021-2025
Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City
2023
Phone use during face-to-face interactions has become increasingly common in adolescents’ social lives, but the mechanisms through which behavior is associated with socioemotional wellbeing remain understudied. Drawing on frameworks of digital multitasking (DSMT) and stress, this study examined whether how three types stress (availability connection overload, fear missing out) mediated association between phone friendships (depressive symptoms friendship quality) among adolescents. A sample...
Serving as a prominent framework for online learning, the Community of Inquiry (CoI), identifies three factors critical to learning in environments: teaching presence, cognitive and social presence. However, application CoI face-to-face classes has not been broadly or systematically explored, despite constructivist paradigms (e.g. flipped classrooms, team-based learning) being increasingly incorporated at post-secondary level. Further, there remains some debate on whether such environments...
Adolescents' phone use during face-to-face interactions (i.e., digital social multitasking [DSMT]) has gained increasing attention because of its prevalence as well implications for well-being. However, most studies have focused on only one dimension the behavior and relied variable-centered approaches. Informed by DSMT framework, we adopted a person-centered approach to identify different groups adolescents based their levels, perceptions, motives with friends. We also examined how these...