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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Buda, Teodora Sandra
• Khwaja, Mohammed
• Garriga, Roger
• Matic, Aleksandar
• Parackal, Mathew

Titel

Two edges of the screen: Unpacking positive and negative associations between phone use in everyday contexts and subjective well-being

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2023-04, Vol.18 (4), p.e0284104-e0284104

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A plethora of past studies have highlighted a negative association between phone use and well-being. Recent studies claimed that there is a lack of strong evidence on the deleterious effects of smartphones on our health, and that previous systematic reviews overestimated the negative link between phone use and well-being. In a three-week long in-the-wild study with 352 participants, we captured 15,607 instances of smartphone use in tandem with rich contextual information (activity, location, company) as well as self-reported well-being measures. We conducted an additional study to gather users' perception of the impact of phone use on their well-being in different daily contexts. Our findings show that context and personal characteristics greatly impact the association between screen time and subjective well-being. This study highlights the complexity of the relationship between phone use and well-being and it deepens our understanding of this problem.