GROUP SENIOR PROJECT :“Week of Unplug and Unwind” to Promote Mindful Young Adult Social Media Use

January 2025-June 2025

Overview

My fellow Psychology students and I collaborated on our senior project to host an initiative titled “The Week of Unplug and Unwind”. The aim was to encourage mindful social media use.

Before hosting this week, my group completed a literature review examining the relationship between social media use and social anxiety and loneliness.

My contributions included content creation in Canva, collaboratively managing the Instagram, creating slide decks for class presentations, coordinating project management (Zoom conferencing, using Google Workspace), and generating ideas for mindfulness challenges and prizes.

Informed by our literature review, we created a week with daily challenges and mindfulness journal prompts related to their social media use. To best reach our target population (young adults on social media), we made an Instagram promoting our week in hopes of disrupting the typical social media scroll.

My group-mates and I also presented our daily challenge, literature review findings, and promoted our week in four Cal Poly Psychology classes (of 30 students) and to one on campus organization (with ~30 members).

Across our social media, class presentations, and club presentation, we reached a total of 180 individuals. 14 individuals officially participated in our week. One lucky participant won a local coffee shop gift card (to hang out with a friend IRL) and a cool journal!

Above is the social media account managed by my group-mates and I. The graphics selected in this clip were created by me using Canva.