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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Slacking Off or Winding Down? An Experience Sampling Study on the Drivers and Consequences of Media Use for Recovery Versus Procrastination
Leonard ReineckeWilhelm Hofmannsubject
Linguistics and LanguageExperience sampling methodGoal orientationCommunicationmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesProcrastination050801 communication & media studies050109 social psychologySelf-control0508 media and communicationsAnthropologyMedia useWell-beingDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyTrait0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsychologyRecreationSocial psychologymedia_commondescription
Today's constant availability of media content provides users with various recreational resources. It may also challenge self-control, however, once media exposure conflicts with other goals and obligations. How media users deal with these self-regulatory chances and risks in their daily lives is largely unknown. Our study addressed the predictors and consequences of recreational and procrastinatory media use using experience sampling methodology (N = 215; 1,094 media use episodes). Results suggest that trait (self-control, performance goal orientation) as well as state variables (exhaustion) are significant predictors of media use for recovery versus procrastination. Whereas recreational media use showed a positive effect on entertainment, which in turn enhanced subjective well-being, negative self-evaluation elicited by procrastinatory media use negatively affected well-being.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-29 | Human Communication Research |