Digital Wellbeing Applications: Adoption, Use and Perceived Effects

• DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/6e9ap
• Publication Date: 2020-09-03T11:08:32Z
• Authors: Douglas A. Parry; Daniel B. le Roux; Joshua Morton; Ruth Pons; Ruan Pretorius; Andre Schoeman
• Keywords: Sample (material); Qualitative property

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