Dr Cara Booker Research Fellow and Graduate Director, University of Essex
- 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
Latest Blog Posts
Publications
Displaying all 7 publications
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Longitudinal associations between social website use and happiness in young people
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Understanding alcohol consumption in a family context
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Do unhappy adolescents become less happy adolescents?
Cara L. Booker, Amanda Sacker, Yvonne Kelly, et al.
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Well-being in adolescence - an association with health-related behaviours
Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, Yvonne Kelly, et al.
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The Facebook generation: youths screen-based media use and well-being
Alexandra J. Skew, Amanda Sacker, Yvonne Kelly, et al.
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Health and biomeasure data in Understanding Society
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Young People and Well-being
Heather Laurie, Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, et al.
Media
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Britons with life-threatening conditions denied care during pandemic
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The health impact of the pandemic: NHS hospital treatments for long-term health conditions fall by over 60% in April
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60% of cancer patients miss treatment during first month of the pandemic
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Working mothers disproportionately more stressed, study claims
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Full-time working mothers are 40% more stressed, study finds
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Working moms 40% more stressed than women without kids: study
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Full-time working moms with two kids are highly stressed: study
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Working mothers ‘up to 40% more stressed’
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Depression in girls linked to higher use of social media
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Worry less about children's screen use, parents told
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Guest blog: Taking time out to go Scroll Free
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Social media use diminishes well-being of teenage girls
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Massive rise in children's use of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with 1 in 8 using social media for THREE HOURS a day
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Social media ‘negatively affects adolescent girls more than boys’
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Essex research shows girls using social media are unhappier