scholarly journals Digital well-being theory and research

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110568
Author(s):  
Moritz Büchi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Descriptive Validity ◽  
Causal Chains ◽  
Specific Manifestation

Digital well-being concerns individuals’ subjective well-being in a social environment where digital media are omnipresent. A general framework is developed to integrate empirical research toward a cumulative science of the impacts of digital media use on well-being. It describes the nature of and connections between three pivotal constructs: digital practices, harms/benefits, and well-being. Individual’s digital practices arise within and shape socio-technical structural conditions, and lead to often concomitant harms and benefits. These pathways are theoretically plausible causal chains that lead from a specific manifestation of digital practice to an individual well-being-related outcome with some regularity. Future digital well-being studies should prioritize descriptive validity and formal theory development.

scholarly journals A Proto-Theory of Digital Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Büchi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theory Integration ◽  
Descriptive Validity ◽  
Causal Chains ◽  
Specific Manifestation

How can we live a good life both thanks to and despite the constant use of digital media? The presented proto-theory of digital well-being offers guidance for theory development and theory integration to enable a cumulative science of the impacts of digital media use on well-being. The proto-theory describes the nature of and connections between three relevant phenomena—digital practices, harms/benefits, and well-being—and creates a blueprint for explanatory theories. It focuses on the mechanisms between digital media use and well-being by analyzing the often concomitant harms and benefits arising from individual’s digital practices within structural conditions; these mechanisms are theoretically plausible causal chains that lead from a specific manifestation of digital practice to a relevant individual well-being outcome with some regularity. Future digital well-being studies should prioritize descriptive validity and longitudinal designs.

Uses and Gratifications

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lance Holbert
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Modeling ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Media Research

This chapter summarizes uses and gratifications, a media research framework that asks why people consume certain media forms. The author explains the general framework of this approach to media, outlines the explanatory principles undergirding work of this kind, and identifies what is needed to move this research agenda toward more formal theory development. The issue of how best to measure gratifications sought, gratifications obtained, and media use is discussed. The chapter identifies three areas for potential developments (i.e., dynamic modeling, complementarity, expansion of communication inputs) within the uses and gratifications framework that may benefit political communication scholars. This issue of what media should be defined as “political” is also addressed, with an argument made for the inclusion of entertainment outlets.

scholarly journals New Digital Media and Flow: A Study of Experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Gruner
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Energy Levels ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Subjective Well Being

AbstractThe burgeoning use of new digital media (NDM) platforms for social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram has consistently been associated with out-group prejudice, less prosocial behaviour, less fulfilling friendships, and lower levels of moral reflection, integrity, and subjective well-being. But the context of NDM use is often neglected when examining its psychological effects. Moreover, such studies are limited to retrospective accounts and can benefit from examining episodic experiences of flow, boredom, apathy, and anxiety. Drawing on data collected using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), this study assessed the psychological impact of social networking on low and high media users. Participants (N = 65) were signaled six times per day for seven days and asked to respond to brief surveys about subjective momentary experiences. Findings indicated that high media users, on average, reported less positive moods, and also reported being significantly less creative and less energetic each day. Further, high media users reported deriving less meaning from daily activities, and were marginally less satisfied with the overall quality of their week than their low media user counterparts. When comparing all media users across flow quadrants, creativity, meaning, engagement, and energy levels were highest in flow, and substantially decreased across the remaining quadrants. Notably, self reported mood was slightly higher during instances of boredom than flow. However, a more nuanced comparison of these outcomes revealed that high media users reported being marginally more creative and engaged during boredom, thereby identifying differences in how the two groups approached social media.

scholarly journals Experience of Loneliness and Subjective Well-Being of a Person

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
Patimat Gasanovna Gasanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Family Experience ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
The Relationship

The primary purpose of this article is to study the relationship between the individual components of the complex experience of loneliness and the indicators of subjective well-being of a senior individual. According to the obtained data, an overall view of oneself as a lonely person is accompanied by low levels of subjective well-being, changes in the mood and the significance of one’s social environment. People who do not have a family experience more negative feelings associated with being alone than those who have a family.

scholarly journals Physical Environment vs. Social Environment: What Factors of Age-Friendliness Predict Subjective Well-Being in Men and Women?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena del Barrio ◽  
Sandra Pinzón ◽  
Sara Marsillas ◽  
Francisco Garrido
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Men And Women

“Age-Friendly Cities and Communities” is an initiative launched by the WHO in 2007 that has spread to more than 1000 cities and communities around the world. This initiative is based on an integrated physical and social environment for older people, and a model of participatory, collaborative governance. An enabling social environment setting is just as important as material conditions in determining well-being in later life. The objective of this study is to analyze the interaction between age-friendliness (physical and social) and subjective well-being in women and men aged 55 and over in the Basque Country. The methodology was based on a survey of a representative sample (n = 2469 individuals). In order to know the predictive power of age-friendliness over subjective well-being, linear regression models separated by gender were constructed. The predictive models of age-friendliness are composed by different variables for men and women. In both cases, the physical environment variables do not remain in the final model. Among the predictors of well-being in men, the coexistence stands out as a safety and support network. In women, the neighborhood has proved to be a very important resource. The conclusions of this study contribute to literature and interventions promoting more effective strategies that enhance older people well-being, considering the gender perspective.

Subjective well-being of older adult internal migrants in China: The role of social environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yuxi Liu ◽  
Rassamee Sangthong ◽  
Thammasin Ingviya ◽  
Chonghua Wan
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Internal Migrants ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Social Environmental Factors

Social environmental factors have rarely been considered in studies exploring the subjective well-being of older adult internal migrants in China. Thus, we investigated the effects of social environmental factors on the subjective well-being of 470 internal migrants (age range = 60–87 years) living in Dongguan, China, using data collected from a survey. The results indicate that the subjective well-being of older adult internal migrants was influenced by individual attributes (marital status, employment status, pension recipient status) and social environment (perceived social support, social cohesion, distance to the closest recreation facility). Social support exerted a stronger impact on subjective well-being than did individual attributes. There was a positive relationship between subjective well-being and perceived social support (including support from family members, friends, and others). Our findings indicate that the subjective well-being of older adult migrants can be enhanced by providing more recreational spaces and community events, and ensuring policies related to social support provide appropriate neighborhood-based support.

Effect of the social environment on alcohol involvement and subjective well-being prior to alcoholism treatment.

1993 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Beattie ◽  
R Longabaugh ◽  
G Elliott ◽  
R L Stout ◽  
J Fava ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Alcoholism Treatment ◽  
Alcohol Involvement ◽  
The Social

Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

Leisure Activities and the Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults in Croatia

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan ◽  
Tihana Brkljačić ◽  
Zvjezdana Prizmić Larsen ◽  
Andreja Brajša-Žganec ◽  
Renata Franc
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Financial Status

Abstract. Research shows that engagement in leisure activities promotes well-being among older adults. The objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between subjective well-being (flourishing) and leisure activities (total number of different activities in the previous year) in a sample of older adults in Croatia, thereby considering the variables of sex, marital status, financial status, and self-perceived health. The differences in the examined variables between the groups of older adults who reported to be engaged in new activities with those who did not were also examined. The sample of N = 169 older adults aged 60 years and above was drawn from a convenience sample of adult internet users in Croatia. Participants reported their self-perceived health and the number of leisure activities they engaged in over the previous year as well as completing the Flourishing Scale. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that older adults who were engaged in more various leisure activities, who perceived better financial status, and who were married reported higher levels of flourishing. A comparison of the two groups of older adults with and without engagement in leisure activities showed that those engaged in at least one leisure activity were more likely to be women, reported higher levels of flourishing, and perceived their own financial status as better. This study indicated that engaging in leisure activities in later life might provide beneficial effects for the well-being of older adults.

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