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Overview

Jon D. Elhai is affiliated with the University of Toledo in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of social sciences and psychology, with a significant output in subfields such as sociology and political science, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and education.

Their work covers a range of topics including the impact of technology on adolescents, digital mental health interventions, mental health research topics, child development and digital technology, media influence and health, social media and politics, and posttraumatic stress disorder research.

Jon D. Elhai has published several papers, among which are:

  • COVID-19 anxiety symptoms associated with problematic smartphone use severity in Chinese adults, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Fear of missing out (FOMO): overview, theoretical underpinnings, and literature review on relations with severity of negative affectivity and problematic technology use, 2020, Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Depression, anxiety and fear of missing out as correlates of social, non-social and problematic smartphone use, 2020, Addictive Behaviors

Their frequent co-authors include Christian Montag, Haibo Yang, Cornelia Sindermann, Dmitri Rozgonjuk, and Brian J. Hall.

Jon D. Elhai contributes regularly to several scientific publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Current Psychology
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • Psychiatry Research

The scientist has also published books with Frontiers Media, including "Online Psychology Beyond Addiction and Gaming: A Global Look at Mental Health and Internet-Related Technologies" (2022) and "Problematic Internet Technology Use: Assessment, Risk Factors, Comorbidity, Adverse Consequences and Intervention" (2021).

Best Publications

  • Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology.

    Jon D. Elhai;Robert D. Dvorak;Jason C. Levine;Brian J. Hall

  • Fear of missing out, need for touch, anxiety and depression are related to problematic smartphone use

    Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Robert D. Dvorak;Brian J. Hall

  • Poly-victimization and risk of posttraumatic, depressive, and substance use disorders and involvement in delinquency in a national sample of adolescents.

    Julian D. Ford;Jon D. Elhai;Daniel F. Connor;B. Christopher Frueh

  • Problematic smartphone use and relations with negative affect, fear of missing out, and fear of negative and positive evaluation.

    Claire A. Wolniewicz;Mojisola F. Tiamiyu;Justin W. Weeks;Jon D. Elhai

  • Which instruments are most commonly used to assess traumatic event exposure and posttraumatic effects?: A survey of traumatic stress professionals

    Jon D. Elhai;Matthew J. Gray;Todd B. Kashdan;C. Laurel Franklin

  • Coping style use predicts posttraumatic stress and complicated grief symptom severity among college students reporting a traumatic loss

    Kimberly R. Schnider;Jon D. Elhai;Matt J. Gray

  • Reliability and validity of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-Short Form.

    Jon D. Elhai;William Schweinle;Susan M. Anderson

  • Dimensional structure of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress symptoms: Support for a hybrid Anhedonia and Externalizing Behaviors model

    Cherie Armour;Jack Tsai;Jack Tsai;Tory A. Durham;Ruby Charak

  • Current Directions in Videoconferencing Tele-Mental Health Research.

    Lisa K. Richardson;B. Christopher Frueh;Anouk L. Grubaugh;Leonard Egede

  • On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse From Empirical Findings

    Christian Montag;Haibo Yang;Jon D. Elhai

  • Non-social features of smartphone use are most related to depression, anxiety and problematic smartphone use

    Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Robert D. Dvorak;Brian J. Hall

  • Evidence for a unique PTSD construct represented by PTSD's D1-D3 symptoms

    Jon D. Elhai;Tracey L. Biehn;Cherie Armour;Cherie Armour;Jessica J. Klopper

  • Fear of missing out: Testing relationships with negative affectivity, online social engagement, and problematic smartphone use

    Jon D. Elhai;Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Ahmad M. Alghraibeh;Ali A. Alafnan

  • Fear of missing out (FoMO) and rumination mediate relations between social anxiety and problematic Facebook use

    Abigail E. Dempsey;Kelsey D. O'Brien;Mojisola F. Tiamiyu;Jon D. Elhai;Jon D. Elhai

  • The relationship between anxiety symptom severity and problematic smartphone use: A review of the literature and conceptual frameworks.

    Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Brian J. Hall;Brian J. Hall

  • The underlying dimensions of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in an epidemiological sample of Chinese earthquake survivors.

    Ping Liu;Li Wang;Chengqi Cao;Richu Wang

  • COVID-19 anxiety symptoms associated with problematic smartphone use severity in Chinese adults.

    Jon D. Elhai;Haibo Yang;Dean McKay;Gordon J.G. Asmundson

  • Depression and anxiety symptoms are related to problematic smartphone use severity in Chinese young adults: Fear of missing out as a mediator.

    Jon D. Elhai;Haibo Yang;Jianwen Fang;Xuejun Bai

  • The factor structure of posttraumatic stress disorder: a literature update, critique of methodology, and agenda for future research.

    Jon D. Elhai;Patrick A. Palmieri

  • The association between problematic smartphone use, depression and anxiety symptom severity, and objectively measured smartphone use over one week

    Dmitri Rozgonjuk;Dmitri Rozgonjuk;Jason C. Levine;Brian J. Hall;Brian J. Hall;Jon D. Elhai

  • A systematic literature review of PTSD's latent structure in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV to DSM-5.

    Cherie Armour;Jana Műllerová;Jon D. Elhai

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in DSM-5: Estimates of prevalence and symptom structure in a nonclinical sample of college students

    Jon D. Elhai;Megan E. Miller;Julian D. Ford;Tracey L. Biehn

Frequent Co-Authors

B. Christopher Frueh
B. Christopher Frueh University of Hawaii at Hilo
Cherie Armour
Cherie Armour Queen's University Belfast
Ateka A. Contractor
Ateka A. Contractor University of North Texas
Brian J. Hall
Brian J. Hall New York University Shanghai
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau
Julian D. Ford
Julian D. Ford University of Connecticut
Dmitri Rozgonjuk
Dmitri Rozgonjuk University of Tartu
David Forbes
David Forbes University of Melbourne
Todd B. Kashdan
Todd B. Kashdan George Mason University
Ask Elklit
Ask Elklit University of Southern Denmark

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