Margarita Panayiotou

Two grown adult academics being unreasonably pleased about sitting on tiny plastic horse style chairs

A clearly very serious discussion with @margaritap.bsky.social on various mental health research plans at our @educationuom.bsky.social away day yesterday

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Representatives from government, regulatory bodies, and academia joined my team at Cambridge last week for an engaging and insightful 2-day workshop, discussing what types of research can help inform UK policy decisions around the impact of social media and smartphones on children and young people.

"Yes I do think the best likert scale ranges from hiss to purrr" - inspiring chats with Dr. Maus Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social

Longitudinal relationships across sleep, physical activity, and mental wellbeing in early-to-mid-adolescence: a developmental cascades investigation - Quality of Life Research Purpose Sleep (SL), physical activity (PA), and wellbeing (WB) are three factors linked to positive development in adolescence. Despite theoretical support and some empirical evidence of developmental...

New #beewell open access registered report on the longitudinal links between sleep, physical activity and wellbeing in adolescence: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Estimating adolescent mental health in the general population: current challenges and opportunities Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes. Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality measurement in this field.

For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ)

In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Social media bans don't address youth mental health problems » Eiko Fried I co-wrote this piece with the fantastic Margarita Panayiotou, Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester who’s work focuses on psychometrics, measurement, social media & adolescent mental health...

In light of Australia’s social media ban, here a brief reminder why bans do not address the core issues they are meant to solve, w @margaritap.bsky.social.

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Simulation studies are essential for methods research. How well are they conducted & reported? How can we improve their quality? Out now in Psychological Methods, see 🧵 below.
With @fbartos.bsky.social, @timpmorris.bsky.social, @boulesteixlaure.bsky.social, @danielheck.bsky.social & Samuel Pawel

Created this child and adolescent mental health starter pack!! Please let me know who else (yourself or others) should be included🥰 go.bsky.app/mJXZrD

I had a blast spending a whole week working on improving the measurement of intensive longitudinal data with so many smart and kind people. Like a nerdy school trip with friends. Thank you 🙏

@eikofried.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @miguelsilan.bsky.social Josip razum

#LorMITNB

Thanks to the amazing organizer team and all participants who made this Lorentz workshop one of the best work weeks in my life.

No, but wanted to say I love the name change haha

Lego pieces sorted into categories other than colour

My favourite teaching activity every year, in my session on thematic analysis. Students sort Lego into categories based on any characteristic other than colour, always followed by rich discussions on subjectivity, distinctness, topic dumps, and why ~ themes do not emerge ~

#PsychSciSky

What scale development and cognitive interview prep looks like. From a critical reading of Normal People's chapter on responding to a depression measure, to lunch at the best place on campus. @jadedavies.bsky.social @reihaneh-farzinnia.bsky.social

Finally JH admitting at the end that he only has two papers on this topic and Candice is very much a leading academic in the area, which made everything he said before a moot point.

The Teen Mental Health Crisis and How Adolescence Shapes Us - Intelligence Squared

I'm very happy to be doing an in-person Q&A event in London on Tues 19 Nov, and a little starstruck to be hosted by Pandora Sykes. We'll be talking about all things adolescence: mental health, friendship, love, bullying.. and maybe even social media 🫣

Details here: tinyurl.com/4ffd9kk5

Just finished reading The Anxious Generation. I now have excellent examples of "how not to interpret findings" for my undergrad research modules 👌

Jan Rasmus Böhnke on LinkedIn: #hrql #thematicanalysis #healtheconomics #healthstates #eq5d #sf6d #promis… Since the end of June I have finished two terms as Co-Editor in Chief of Quality of Life Research* and I am now just supporting the remaining CoEiC Brittany…

I finished my two terms as Co-Editor in Chief at "Quality of Life Research" in June and I am now supporting the transition to the new team.

Starting to post some reflections here:
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#AcademicPublishing #HRQL #HealthEconomics #ISOQOL

Playing the alphabet factor game: the S factor for satisfaction » Eiko Fried In our WARN-D study, we collected info on how satisfied students are in different domains of their lives. Here the results.

The field of alphabet factoring in psychology is rough and competitive, but I have made it: I have invented the S factor for satisfaction!! (jokes aside, we have really interesting data on satisfaction, thoughts very welcome).

#psychpsyski #stats

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I was asked to contribute to the Growing Up In Science lecture series, to talk more about personal journeys (ups as well as downs) in academia. Here is mine, touching on the multiple body problem, impostor's syndrome, finding a home & more lifespancognitivedynamics.com/posts/2024-0...

Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes

⭐ My new book, Coming Of Age, is out now ⭐

It's about adolescence, but it's also about the response we have to our teenage selves: about why memories from this time can evoke such strong feelings in us, both good and bad, and how we might think about it in a more hopeful way

tinyurl.com/47kwapfb

#legohouse 💚

I am really happy that I came across the #PrePrint of this paper and the authors decided to submit to our journal after we encouraged them.

We are happy to support moving the needle for methodology in intensive longitudinal studies!

#ISOQOL #HRQL #Psychometrics

Fact-check: depression & temperatures study » Eiko Fried Lets check a new study finding a relationship between depression severity and thermoregulation: do the conclusions hold up?

Tried to blog a little more in 2024. Brief summary of this year's science-related blog posts. 🧵

(1) Fact-checking a study on temperature and depression. Cool study and data, but conclusions were unfortunately somewhat misaligned with the data.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciPky #StatsSky 🧪

I launched a platform for researchers to find collaborations easily. A kind of blablacar or airbnb but instead of putting your route or apartment, you put the technique, experiment or analysis that you handle and with which you would be open to make collaborations. joinportiko.com
re-post please!

😂 do you think these would be good for sharing things with stakeholders? Or is it still very academic?

These seem cool!

Social media bans don't address youth mental health problems » Eiko Fried I co-wrote this piece with the fantastic Margarita Panayiotou, Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester who’s work focuses on psychometrics, measurement, social media & adolescent mental health...

In response to Florida's social media ban for young people & Haidt's new book, @margaritap.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post summarizing the scientific evidence of social media bans. We also discuss initiatives that would actually tackle youth mental health issues.