Pilot data supporting an attachment-based theory of adolescent social media use.
Amanda C VentaJennifer HarmonAnna AbateKaisa MarshallSuzanne Mouton-OdumPublished in: Child and adolescent mental health (2019)
The current study confirmed previously documented relations between parent-child attachment and hypermentalization as well as research demonstrating that parent-child attachment acts on an adolescent's social world - in this case their virtual social world - through anomalous mentalization.