Slacking off or winding down? An experience sampling study on the drivers and consequences of media use for recovery versus procrastination.
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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.
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Internet use conflicts with other goals and obligations.
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Academic environments offer many temptations and distractions, with Internet access as a prime example.
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- Authors
- Reinecke, L., & Hofmann, W.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- University of Cologne (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Reinecke, Leonard
- Venue
- Human Communication Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2016-03-29
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 441-461
- ISSN
- 0360-3989 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2319515924
- Cited by
- 160
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 159.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Human Communication Research (publishedVersion)
- Kölner Universitäts PublikationsServer (Universität zu Köln) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Media Influence and Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior
- Keywords
- procrastination, self-control, performance goal orientation, subjective well-being, entertainment, self-assessment, self-regulation, goal conflict
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