Y. Anthony Chen

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• Bidirectional relationships of parenting stress, media use for behavior management, and children's behavior problems from 9 to 30 months. Developmental psychology Reich, S. M., Dore, R., Krager, A., Chen, Y. A., Mayfield, K. T., Franza, D., Cabrera, N. 2026

  Abstract

  As digital devices permeate the environments of young children, there is growing concern that media use might be displacing very young children's opportunities to cultivate important developmental skills, such as controlling their emotions and behaviors. Further, given the power of devices to capture children's attention, even when emotionally upset, parents might utilize media to both calm and distract their children, even when such use is counter to professional recommendations for very young children's media use. This study uses data from a longitudinal bilingual (English/Spanish) parenting intervention to assess how mothers' and fathers' parenting stress might be reciprocally related to their use of media to calm or distract their child from infancy to toddlerhood and how such use might be linked to young children's behavior problems from 9 to 30 months. Importantly, bidirectional relationships between the device use for behavior management and children's behavior problems are also considered. With a sample of 419 low-to-moderate income, ethnically diverse parents (210 families), we found that for mothers, parenting stress, device use to calm and distract, and children's behavior problems were reciprocally related over time. These within-subject effects indicate that the relationship between these constructs varies within mother-child dyads. For fathers, only between-subject effects were found for device use to calm and distract and children's behavior problems, indicating differences between fathers in their use of media. Such findings underscore the need to include both mothers and fathers in media research and to consider both parent and child contributions to media use and developmental processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

  View details for DOI 10.1037/dev0002164

  View details for PubMedID 41801732

• Social media self-presentation of LGBTQ plus youth in the United States: the role of identity exploration, context collapse, and supportive feedback JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION Chen, Y., Mares, M. 2025; 30 (6)

  View details for DOI 10.1093/jcmc/zmaf020

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• The combined well-being effects of social media activities: how self-affirmation can buffer against upward social comparisons on Instagram HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH Chen, Y., Toma, C. L. 2025

  View details for DOI 10.1093/hcr/hqaf022

  View details for Web of Science ID 001605116100001

• A longitudinal study of directly observed social media posting: Association with socioemotional well-being during the transition to high school COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR REPORTS Calvin, A., Chen, Y., Selkie, E. 2025; 19

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100748

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• Uses of Media Representation in LGBTQ Adults' Relationship With Their Parent: Individual, Relational, and Sociocultural Contexts PSYCHOLOGY OF POPULAR MEDIA Chen, Y., Mares, M. 2025

  View details for DOI 10.1037/ppm0000602

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• "Anyway, I Love You, Text Me Please" Exploring Attachment, Affordances, and Support-Seeking via Texting JOURNAL OF MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY-THEORIES METHODS AND APPLICATIONS Chen, Y., Peebles, A. L., Lu, R. 2025

  View details for DOI 10.1027/1864-1105/a000469

  View details for Web of Science ID 001448026200001

• Media as a Locus for Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization: US Youth Report on Discussions and Mutual Mediation MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY Mares, M., McClain, A., Martins, N., Booth, M., Chen, Y. 2024

  View details for DOI 10.1080/15213269.2024.2410770

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• The lonely algorithm problem: the relationship between algorithmic personalization and social connectedness on TikTok JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION Taylor, S., Chen, Y. 2024; 29 (5)

  View details for DOI 10.1093/jcmc/zmae017

  View details for Web of Science ID 001305185100001

• Adolescents' mental health, problematic internet use, and their parents' rules on internet use: A latent profile analysis COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR Chen, Y., Fan, T. 2024; 156

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.chb.2024.108232

  View details for Web of Science ID 001224899900001

• Parental Internet practices in the family system: Restrictive mediation, problematic Internet use, and adolescents' age-related variations in perceptions of parent-child relationship quality JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Peebles, A., Chen, Y. 2024; 41 (6): 1347-1369

  View details for DOI 10.1177/02654075231221581

  View details for Web of Science ID 001124396600001

• To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY Chen, Y., Toma, C. L. 2024; 27 (3): 428-454

  View details for DOI 10.1080/15213269.2023.2246895

  View details for Web of Science ID 001048194900001

• Mutual socialization during shared media moments: US LGBTQ teens and their parents negotiate identity support JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION Mares, M., Chen, Y., Bond, B. J. 2023; 73 (2): 113-125

  View details for DOI 10.1093/joc/jqac046

  View details for Web of Science ID 000914013300001

• Texting or face-to-face for support-seeking in romantic relationships: The role of affordances and attachment JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Chen, Y., Lu, R. 2024; 41 (5): 1136-1156

  View details for DOI 10.1177/02654075231152910

  View details for Web of Science ID 000922386300001

• Disentangling Between-Person Level From Within-Person Level Relationships: How Sharing Alcohol References on Facebook and Alcohol Use Are Associated Over Time MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY Geusens, F., Chen, Y., Kerr, B., Moreno, M. 2023; 26 (3): 252-277

  View details for DOI 10.1080/15213269.2022.2138443

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• Parasocial Relationship and Reduction of Intergroup Prejudice against the Chinese LGBT Community: Intergroup Anxiety and Direct Contact COMMUNICATION STUDIES Chen, Y., Zhang, Y. 2022; 73 (4): 397-411

  View details for DOI 10.1080/10510974.2022.2113415

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• International students' psychosocial well-being and social media use at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR Chen, Y., Fan, T., Toma, C. L., Scherr, S. 2022; 137

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107409

  View details for Web of Science ID 000874367000007

  View details for PubMedID 35936989

• Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens' Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY Mares, M., Chen, Y., Bond, B. J. 2022; 25 (3): 441-468

  View details for DOI 10.1080/15213269.2021.1969950

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• How Does Social Media Use Relate to Adolescents' Internalizing Symptoms? Conclusions from a Systematic Narrative Review ADOLESCENT RESEARCH REVIEW Sarmiento, I. G., Olson, C., Yeo, G., Chen, Y., Toma, C. L., Brown, B., Bellmore, A., Mares, M. 2020; 5 (4): 381-404

  View details for DOI 10.1007/s40894-018-0095-2

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• Does social media use improve or worsen adolescents' internalizing behaviors? Conclusions from a systematic narrative review Sarmiento, I. G., Olson, C., Yeo, G., Chen, Y., Toma, C. L., Brown, B., Bellmore, A., Mares, M., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2018

  View details for DOI 10.1145/3183654.3183699

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