TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between online vigilance and affective well-being in everyday life
T2 - Combining smartphone logging with experience sampling
AU - Johannes, Niklas
AU - Meier, Adrian
AU - Reinecke, Leonard
AU - Ehlert, Saara
AU - Setiawan, Dinda Nuranissa
AU - Walasek, Nicole
AU - Dienlin, Tobias
AU - Buijzen, Moniek
AU - Veling, Harm
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Through communication technology, users find themselves constantly connected to others to such an extent that they routinely develop a mind-set of connectedness. This mind-set has been defined as online vigilance. Although there is a large body of research on media use and well-being, the question of how online vigilance impacts well-being remains unanswered. In this preregistered study, we combine experience sampling and smartphone logging to address the relation of online vigilance and affective well-being in everyday life. Seventy-five Android users answered eight daily surveys over five days (N = 1,615) whilst having their smartphone use logged. Thinking about smartphone-mediated social interactions (i.e., the salience dimension of online vigilance) was negatively related to affective well-being. However, it was far more important whether those thoughts were positive or negative. No other dimension of online vigilance was robustly related to affective well-being. Taken together, our results suggest that online vigilance does not pose a serious threat to affective well-being in everyday life.
AB - Through communication technology, users find themselves constantly connected to others to such an extent that they routinely develop a mind-set of connectedness. This mind-set has been defined as online vigilance. Although there is a large body of research on media use and well-being, the question of how online vigilance impacts well-being remains unanswered. In this preregistered study, we combine experience sampling and smartphone logging to address the relation of online vigilance and affective well-being in everyday life. Seventy-five Android users answered eight daily surveys over five days (N = 1,615) whilst having their smartphone use logged. Thinking about smartphone-mediated social interactions (i.e., the salience dimension of online vigilance) was negatively related to affective well-being. However, it was far more important whether those thoughts were positive or negative. No other dimension of online vigilance was robustly related to affective well-being. Taken together, our results suggest that online vigilance does not pose a serious threat to affective well-being in everyday life.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086101259&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15213269.2020.1768122
DO - 10.1080/15213269.2020.1768122
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086101259
VL - 24
SP - 581
EP - 605
JO - Media Psychology
JF - Media Psychology
SN - 1521-3269
IS - 5
ER -