Dr Cara Booker Research Fellow and Graduate Director, University of Essex

Email

cbooker@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

01206 873026

Office

2N2.4.24

Graduate Studies

• Cara is Director, and Janice Webb is Administrator of Graduate Studies
• Please follow this link to find out about PhD study at ISER

Research Interests

• Psychosocial determinants and risk factors of health across the life-course
• Social inequalities in health-related behaviours and wellbeing among adolescents
• Social media interaction and adolescent and young adult wellbeing
• Emerging inequalitiees
• Parental relationships and child wellbeing

Follow Cara on Twitter @cara_booker

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Publications

Displaying all 7 publications

1. Longitudinal associations between social website use and happiness in young people

   Cara L. Booker, Amanda Sacker, and Yvonne Kelly

   Conference Paper, Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2015, 21-23 July 2015, University of Essex, Colchester, UK - 23 Jul 2015
   1. Information And Communication Technologies
   2. Young People
   3. Well Being
   4. Health

2. Understanding alcohol consumption in a family context

   Cara L. Booker

   Conference Paper, Understanding Society Research Conference, 24-26 July 2013, University of Essex - 26 Jul 2013

3. Do unhappy adolescents become less happy adolescents?

   Cara L. Booker, Amanda Sacker, Yvonne Kelly, et al.

   Conference Paper, Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies - Oct 2012

4. Well-being in adolescence - an association with health-related behaviours

   Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, Yvonne Kelly, et al.

   Conference Paper, International Congress of Behavioral Medicine - Aug 2012

5. The Facebook generation: youths screen-based media use and well-being

   Alexandra J. Skew, Amanda Sacker, Yvonne Kelly, et al.

   Conference Paper, British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference - 2011

6. Health and biomeasure data in Understanding Society

   Cara L. Booker and Stephanie L. McFall

   Conference Paper, British Sociological Association Conference - Apr 2011

7. Young People and Well-being

   Heather Laurie, Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, et al.

   Conference Paper, Young People and Well-being -

Media

Displaying media publications 1 - 15 of 41 in total

1. Britons with life-threatening conditions denied care during pandemic

   Media - 08 Jun 2020
   1. Psychology
   2. Demography
   3. Public Policy
   4. Well Being
   5. Health
   6. Social Stratification
   7. Caregiving
   8. Covid 19

2. The health impact of the pandemic: NHS hospital treatments for long-term health conditions fall by over 60% in April

   Media - 08 Jun 2020
   1. Psychology
   2. Demography
   3. Public Policy
   4. Well Being
   5. Health
   6. Social Stratification
   7. Caregiving
   8. Covid 19

3. 60% of cancer patients miss treatment during first month of the pandemic

   Media - 04 Jun 2020
   1. Psychology
   2. Demography
   3. Public Policy
   4. Well Being
   5. Health
   6. Social Stratification
   7. Caregiving
   8. Covid 19

4. Working mothers disproportionately more stressed, study claims

   Media - 30 Jan 2019

5. Full-time working mothers are 40% more stressed, study finds

   Media - 29 Jan 2019

6. Working moms 40% more stressed than women without kids: study

   Media - 28 Jan 2019

7. Full-time working moms with two kids are highly stressed: study

   Media - 28 Jan 2019

8. Working mothers ‘up to 40% more stressed’

   Media - 27 Jan 2019

9. Depression in girls linked to higher use of social media

   Media - 04 Jan 2019

10. Worry less about children's screen use, parents told

    Media - 04 Jan 2019

11. Guest blog: Taking time out to go Scroll Free

    Media - 27 Jul 2018

12. Social media use diminishes well-being of teenage girls

    Media - 04 Apr 2018

13. Massive rise in children's use of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with 1 in 8 using social media for THREE HOURS a day

    Media - 26 Mar 2018

14. Social media ‘negatively affects adolescent girls more than boys’

    Media - 26 Mar 2018

15. Essex research shows girls using social media are unhappier

    Media - 22 Mar 2018