TY - JOUR
T1 - Caught in the moment: Are there person-specific associations between momentary procrastination and passively measured smartphone use?
AU - Aalbers, George
AU - Abeele, Mariek M. P. Vanden
AU - Hendrickson, Andrew T.
AU - Marez, Lieven de
AU - Keijsers, Loes
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/3/5
Y1 - 2021/3/5
N2 - Procrastination is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon. Although research suggests smartphones might be involved, little is known about the momentary association between different patterns of smartphone use and procrastination. In a preregistered study, 221 students (M
age = 20, 55% female) self-reported procrastination five times a day for 30 days (i.e., experience sampling method) while their smartphone use was continuously monitored (i.e., passive logging). Using dynamic structural equation modeling on 27,151 observations, we estimated momentary within-person associations between procrastination and (a) total smartphone use and use of specific application categories (social media, messaging, browsers, games, and video streaming), (b) notifications, and (c) smartphone use fragmentation. Procrastination was positively albeit weakly associated with all aforementioned patterns, and associations varied from person to person. Collectively, our findings suggest these popular devices potentially encourage dilatory behavior.
AB - Procrastination is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon. Although research suggests smartphones might be involved, little is known about the momentary association between different patterns of smartphone use and procrastination. In a preregistered study, 221 students (M
age = 20, 55% female) self-reported procrastination five times a day for 30 days (i.e., experience sampling method) while their smartphone use was continuously monitored (i.e., passive logging). Using dynamic structural equation modeling on 27,151 observations, we estimated momentary within-person associations between procrastination and (a) total smartphone use and use of specific application categories (social media, messaging, browsers, games, and video streaming), (b) notifications, and (c) smartphone use fragmentation. Procrastination was positively albeit weakly associated with all aforementioned patterns, and associations varied from person to person. Collectively, our findings suggest these popular devices potentially encourage dilatory behavior.
KW - experience sampling
KW - passive logging
KW - procrastination
KW - smartphone
UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157921993896
U2 - 10.1177/2050157921993896
DO - 10.1177/2050157921993896
M3 - Article
JO - Mobile Media & Communication
JF - Mobile Media & Communication
SN - 2050-1579
ER -