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Digital wellbeing applications: Adoption, use and perceived effects

2022; Elsevier BV; Volume: 139; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.chb.2022.107542

1873-7692

Douglas A. Parry, Daniel Roux, Joshua Morton, Ruth Pons, Ruan Pretorius, Andre Schoeman,

Digital Marketing and Social Media

Increasingly, mobile applications, services, and features enable people to monitor and regulate their smartphone use in the support of their digital wellbeing. Herein we report a mixed-method study involving the collection of both quantitative and qualitative data from a student sample conducted with the aim of investigating, firstly, the adoption of applications and features designed to support digital wellbeing, secondly, the factors that influence the continued use of such applications and, thirdly, the effects users perceive these applications to have on their digital wellbeing. The outcomes of this study highlight the importance of individual motivations and the need to understand digital wellbeing as more than simply the use of an application or tool but, rather a subjective consideration of the place of digital media in an individual’s life. The present study provides a rich descriptive account of the temporal variability, person-specificity, and device-contingent nature of digital wellbeing.