Odgers and Jensen's (Annual research review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: Facts, fears, and future directions, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020) review compellingly suggests that a rapid increase in the number of hours adolescents now dedicate to digital media use over the past decade may not be associated with concomitant changes in the prevalence of adolescent mental health disorders. Yet, there are many unexplored questions that deserve attention to fully understand how adolescents' use of digital media has transformed social experiences and adolescent development. In this commentary, we offer an agenda for researchers interested in examining digital media use within a broader developmental psychopathology framework. Specifically, we discuss past theories and emerging findings suggesting both deleterious and beneficial effects of digital media use, a need for greater semantic clarity in the field, and a call for greater methodological precision to fully capture concurrent and prospective associations between digital media use and adjustment. In addition, we suggest that it may be fruitful to dedicate less research attention toward the number of hours that adolescents spend using technology, and more on what specific behaviors teens engage in online. Moreover, more work is needed to understand individual vulnerability or resiliency factors that may impact online experiences. We review opportunities for future work on digital media use that may integrate findings from developmental social neuroscience and also discuss a need to investigate how adolescents' online behavior may be affecting developmental competencies offline. Adolescents' use of digital media is rapidly changing, and this is an important, yet challenging topic that deserves attention from investigators who study adolescent adjustment.

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评论：有关数字媒体使用和青少年发展的最新议程-Odgers＆Jensen（2020）之后的未来方向。

Odgers和Jensen的研究（年度研究评论：数字时代的青少年心理健康：事实，恐惧和未来方向，Wiley-Blackwell，2020年）评论令人信服地表明，如今，致力于数字媒体使用的青少年时数迅速增加在过去的十年中，青少年精神健康障碍的患病率可能不会随之变化。然而，有许多未探讨的问题值得关注，以充分理解青少年对数字媒体的使用如何改变了社会经验和青少年发展。在这篇评论中，我们为有兴趣在更广泛的发展性心理病理学框架内研究数字媒体使用的研究人员提供了议程。特别，我们讨论了过去的理论和新兴发现，这些发现暗示了数字媒体使用的有害和有益影响，需要在领域中提高语义的清晰度，并呼吁提高方法的精确度，以完全捕捉数字媒体使用与调整之间的并发和预期关联。此外，我们建议，将较少的研究注意力投入到青少年使用技术上的时间上，而更多地关注青少年在网上进行的特定行为，可能会富有成果。此外，需要做更多的工作来了解可能影响在线体验的个人漏洞或弹性因素。我们回顾了有关数字媒体使用的未来工作的机会，这些机会可以整合来自发展性社会神经科学的发现，还讨论了调查青少年的 在线行为可能会影响离线发展能力。青少年对数字媒体的使用正在迅速变化，这是一个重要而又具有挑战性的话题，值得研究青少年适应性的研究者关注。