Did smartphones enhance or diminish well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As smartphones have become increasingly integrated into people's lives, researchers have attempted to answer whether they are beneficial or detrimental to well-being. Of particular interest to the current study is the role that smartphones played during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Methods

In an intensive longitudinal study, we explore how varying uses of smartphones relate to well-being using the Displacement-Interference-Complementarity framework.

Results

Consistent with pre-pandemic research, we show that people felt better, calmer, and more energetic when they used their phones more for complementary purposes (i.e., to access information, entertainment, and connection not otherwise available). In contrast to most pre-pandemic research, how

SUBMITTER: Heyman JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040682 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature