Does putting down your smartphone make you happier? the effects of restricting digital media on well-being.
| dc.contributor.author | Lisa C Walsh | |
| dc.contributor.author | Annie Regan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sonja Lyubomirsky | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-10T05:31:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-02T04:13:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 01-00-2024 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | - | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306910 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Both scientists and laypeople have become increasingly concerned about smartphones, especially their associated digital media (e.g., email, news, gaming, and dating apps) and social media (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat). Recent correlational research links substantial declines in Gen Z well-being to digital and social media use, yet other work suggests the effects are small and unnoteworthy. To help further disentangle correlation from causation, we conducted a preregistered 8-day experimental deprivation study with Gen Z individuals (N = 338). Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (1) restrict digital media (i.e., smartphone) use, (2) restrict social media use, (3) restrict water use (active control), or (4) restrict nothing (measurement-only control). Relative to controls, participants restricting digital media reported a variety of benefits, including higher life satisfaction, mindfulness, autonomy, competence, and self-esteem, and reduced loneliness and stress. In contrast, those assigned to restrict social media reported relatively few benefits (increased mindfulness) and even some potential costs (increased negative emotion). | |
| dc.format | - | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | |
| dc.publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) | |
| dc.relation.uri | ['https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/nuclear-physics-b', 'https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/nuclear-physics-b/publish/guide-for-authors'] | |
| dc.rights | CC BY | |
| dc.subject | ['high energy physics', 'quantum field theory', 'mathematical physics', 'statistical systems', 'nuclear physics', 'Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity', 'QC770-798'] | |
| dc.subject.lcc | Medicine | |
| dc.title | Does putting down your smartphone make you happier? the effects of restricting digital media on well-being. | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.description.pages | - | |
| dc.description.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0306910 | |
| dc.title.journal | PLoS ONE | |
| dc.identifier.e-issn | 1932-6203 | |
| dc.identifier.oai | oai:doaj.org/journal:99544c9a530e468193d8512b1b1db4cc | |
| dc.journal.info | Volume 19, Issue 10 |