Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer
@PieraPiSu
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PhD student @The_MRC DTP Neuroscience & Mental health @CambPsych | social inequalities and adolescent development | she/her
Joined April 2020
Feeling poorer than one's friends is related to worse mental health and interpersonal difficulties, independent of actual economic positioning. Happy to share this new paper using the @CLScohorts MCS out now in @TheJCPP:.
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Background Adolescence is a period of life when young people increasingly define themselves through peer comparison and are vulnerable to developing mental health problems. In the current study, we...
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Come see my talk on social connection during adolescence👭.Tomorrow Wednesday 12th February 7:30pm at the Cambridge Tap 😃.@CamBrainCNS.
Join us tomorrow for our 💖Valentine's week💖 edition of Neurotalks, on People and Connections. @beccasue99, Julia Hernandez Duch, and @PieraPiSu will discuss discuss the importance of connection and what can influence social cognition and connections. Abstracts ⬇️🧵
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RT @Gates_Cambridge: Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer on how to make the world a better place for young people, the cumulative impact of adversity &….
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I am still fundraising for the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation during the @CambridgeHalfUK! . Want to know how you can help me? Read more about it here: @cambscf.
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Running for a better Cambridgeshire
🎖️I am fundraising for @cambscf during the @CambridgeHalfUK in March! .Help me raise money for their projects addressing homelessness, mental health and education inequalities in Cambridgeshire! .More info here:
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🎖️I am fundraising for @cambscf during the @CambridgeHalfUK in March! .Help me raise money for their projects addressing homelessness, mental health and education inequalities in Cambridgeshire! .More info here:
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Our paper on the relationship between perceived income inequalities and adolescent mental health difficulties has been featured as relevant for the UN Sustainable Goal of Reducing Inequalities. Read it on the Wiley website:.
Reducing inequality enables us to move forward together. Open access articles by Wiley, including our paper by @PieraPiSu on The relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents.
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RT @sjblakemore: I turned 50 this month, and one of my favourite gifts was this card made by alumni and current members of my research grou….
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In line with previous research, we also found age-related differences in self-concept. Thank you to everyone involved in this paper, including my lovely students, and @sjblakemore @saz_ahmed_ @TimDalgleish @WillemKuyken.
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We used data from 163 girls (9 to 15 years) who took part in a larger study, published in.@WileyPsychology Developmental Science . Participants completed a self-referential task (including a social control condition) and a self-report friendship quality questionnaire.
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⏰ New preprint: Higher friendship quality in adolescent girls is related to greater positive self-judgements and lower negative self-judgements. This preprint has been accepted for publication in @SageJournals Journal of Early Adolescence. 🧵🧵
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RT @FassiLuisa: Excited to share our systematic review and meta-analysis is out in @JAMAPediatrics!. We synthesize, quantify, and compare e….
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Thank you to all the co-authors in this paper @sjblakemore @maddyempayne @algoddings @LydiaSpeyer @TimDalgleish @WillemKuyken 🤝🫶.
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💡Negative self-referential processing may play a role in the relationship between puberty, mental health & emotion regulation difficulties in adolescent girls. Read more in our new paper, joint first authored with @saz_ahmed_ 🤝🫶.
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Adolescence is marked by the onset of puberty, which is associated with an increase in mental health difficulties, particularly in girls. Social and self-referential processes also develop during...
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RT @saz_ahmed_: 📣 New paper! 📣. We found that girls in later stages of puberty are more likely to have mental health problems & emotion reg….
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Adolescence is marked by the onset of puberty, which is associated with an increase in mental health difficulties, particularly in girls. Social and self-referential processes also develop during...
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RT @Sara_De_Felice: Are you or someone you know 16-18 years old & based in Cambridge? Get involved in this paid and fun research on peer-le….
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RT @324cat: Una aposta pionera a Martorell permet a tots els infants i joves de 3 a 16 anys fer extraescolars de manera gratuïta. El 60% de….
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El 60% de l'alumnat que s'hi va apuntar el primer curs no havia tingut mai abans l'oportunitat de fer una activitat extraescolar
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RT @FundacioBofill: 📈 La recerca internacional demostra que els països amb més despesa en beques tenen taxes més baixes d’abandonament esco….
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RT @sjblakemore: Very excited about our new grant from @wellcometrust with brilliant colleagues @Dee_Kay_Jay and Marianne van den Bree….
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A Wellcome Discovery Award funds a new study characterising the development of the brain during childhood and adolescence in unprecedented detail
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RT @DE_Sawyer: Summer ‘24 UNIQ+ research internships open to UK undergrads from under-represented / disadvantaged backgrounds: https://t.co….
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RT @sjblakemore: My lab has moved to the Old Cavendish Site in Free School Lane, Cambridge. We will be with other developmental groups from….
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