PROJECT LEADERS
Sophia Choukas-Bradley
Laura Widman (North Carolina State University)
In collaboration with Dr. Laura Widman’s Teen Health Lab at NC State University, the TAYA Lab conducted a school-based longitudinal study examining interpersonal influences on adolescents’ sexuality and body image. In the spring of 2018, we administered Widman’s sexual health intervention to NC high school students and collected data on a broad range of adolescents’ experiences related to social media use, body image, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. We collected one-year follow-up data in the spring of 2019. We have begun to publish papers using this dataset. One major project related to this study is the development and validation of the Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness (ASMC) Scale, and related investigations of ASMC:
Choukas-Bradley et al. (2020), Body Image, "The Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale: Development and validation with adolescents"
Maheux et al. (2022), Journal of Adolescence, "Longitudinal associations between appearance-related social media consciousness and adolescents' depressive symptoms"
We have also published several papers focused on adolescents' sexuality; for example:
Widman et al. (2021), Sexuality & Culture, "Sexual communication in the digital age: Adolescent sexual communication with parents and friends about sexting, pornography, and starting relationships online"
Maheux et al. (2021), Body Image, "Associations between adolescents’ pornography consumption and self-objectification, body comparison, and body shame"