Publications by authors named "K G Faulkner"

Unlabelled: Public discourse and empirical studies have predominantly focused on the negative repercussions of social media on adolescents' mental health. However, pervasive social media use is a relatively new phenomenon-its apparent harms have been widely accepted before sufficient longitudinal and experimental research has been conducted. The present study used an intensive longitudinal design (four assessments/day × 14 days;  = 154 12- to 15-year-olds (  = 13.

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Tactile stimulation has been shown to increase auditory loudness judgments in listeners. This bias could be utilized to enhance perception for people with deficiencies in auditory intensity perception, such as cochlear implant users. However, several aspects of this enhancement remain uncertain.

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Introduction/objectives: Adults with food insecurity (FI) face barriers to hypertension management, including difficulty adhering to diet recommendations. Few community health worker (CHW) interventions focus on diet to improve blood pressure. This qualitative study elicited patient and CHW perspectives on healthy eating and a future CHW nutrition intervention for patients with hypertension.

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The dispersal of organisms in the Anthropocene has been profoundly altered by human activities, with far-reaching consequences for humans, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Managing such dispersal effectively is critical to achieve the 2030 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Here, we bring together insights from invasion science, movement ecology, and conservation biology, and extend a widely used classification framework for the introduction pathways of alien species to encompass other forms of dispersal.

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The maturation of effective emotion regulation (ER) skills is a core achievement of adolescence and youth are now developing their ER habits and skills in a hybrid reality of digital and non-digital experiences. We present a new model of adolescent digital emotion regulation as a conceptual framework to help guide burgeoning research in this area. We distinguish two primary processes: the regulation of emotions that have been elicited within digital contexts (i.

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