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Jan Van den Bulck is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions to related subfields such as education, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, general health professions, and health.

Their recent publications focus extensively on topics related to sleep and digital technology use, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach that bridges child development, health literacy, and mental health issues exacerbated by modern technology. The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Educational Methods and Impacts

Jan Van den Bulck's publications appear in several well-regarded venues, particularly in the field of sleep research and health psychology. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Sleep Health
  • SLEEP
  • Journal of Applied Gerontology
  • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
  • Sleep Medicine

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • The impact of screen use on sleep health across the lifespan: A National Sleep Foundation consensus statement (2024, Sleep Health)
  • It's not all about the likes: Social media affordances with nighttime, problematic, and adverse use as predictors of adolescent sleep indicators (2021, Sleep Health)
  • Digital Communications Technology Use and Feelings of Anxiety, Depression, and Loneliness Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2023, Journal of Applied Gerontology)
  • Examining understandability, information quality, and presence of misinformation in popular YouTube videos on sleep compared to expert-led videos (2023, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine)
  • Chronorexia and Orthosomnia: Towards the development of scales to measure unhealthy obsessions with sleep (2022, Sleep Medicine)

Jan Van den Bulck collaborates frequently with several researchers, signifying interdisciplinary engagement within the broader health and psychological sciences communities. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Rebecca Robbins
  • Stacy Loeb
  • Kristen Monten
  • Colin Le
  • Matthias Höfer

Best Publications

  • Television viewing, computer game playing, and Internet use and self-reported time to bed and time out of bed in secondary-school children.

    Jan Van den Bulck

  • Bedtime mobile phone use and sleep in adults.

    Liese Exelmans;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Adolescent Use of Mobile Phones for Calling and for Sending Text Messages After Lights Out: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study with a One-Year Follow-Up

    Jan Van den Bulck

  • Nodding off or switching off? The use of popular media as a sleep aid in secondary-school children

    Steven Eggermont;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Binge Viewing, Sleep, and the Role of Pre-Sleep Arousal.

    Liese Exelmans;Jan Van den Bulck

  • The Influence of Perceived Parental Guidance Patterns on Children's Media Use: Gender Differences and Media Displacement

    Jan Van den Bulck;Bea Van den Bergh

  • Is television bad for your health? Behavior and body image of the adolescent "couch potato"

    Jan Van den Bulck

  • Energy intake associated with television viewing in adolescents, a cross sectional study.

    Jan Van den Bulck;Jan Van Mierlo

  • Viewership of pro‐anorexia websites in seventh, ninth and eleventh graders

    Kathleen Custers;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Benchmarking the cultivation approach to video game effects: a comparison of the correlates of TV viewing and game play.

    Jan Van Mierlo;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Text messaging as a cause of sleep interruption in adolescents, evidence from a cross‐sectional study

    Jan Van den Bulck

  • TELEVISION AND MUSIC VIDEO EXPOSURE AND ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL USE WHILE GOING OUT

    Jan Van Den Bulck;Kathleen Beullens

  • When digital natives instruct digital immigrants: active guidance of parental media use by children and conflict in the family

    Sara Nelissen;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Bedtime, shuteye time and electronic media: sleep displacement is a two‐step process

    Liese Exelmans;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Television exposure is related to fear of avian flu, an Ecological Study across 23 member states of the European Union

    Jan Van den Bulck;Kathleen Custers

  • The Cultivation of Fear of Sexual Violence in Women: Processes and Moderators of the Relationship Between Television and Fear

    Kathleen Custers;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Television viewing and age at smoking initiation : does a relationship exist between higher levels of television viewing and earlier onset of smoking?

    Klaas Gutschoven;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Excellent gamer, excellent driver? The impact of adolescents' video game playing on driving behavior: a two-wave panel study.

    Kathleen Beullens;Keith Roe;Jan Van den Bulck

  • Media Use and Dreaming: The Relationship Among Television Viewing, Computer Game Play, and Nightmares or Pleasant Dreams.

    Jan Van den Bulck

  • Testing the effectiveness of a skin cancer narrative in promoting positive health behavior: a pilot study.

    Marijke Lemal;Jan Van den Bulck

  • The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and persuasion

    Jan Van den Bulck

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Elen
Jan Elen KU Leuven
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Michael Gradisar
Michael Gradisar Flinders University
Leonard Reinecke
Leonard Reinecke Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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