Objective, subjective, and accurate reporting of social media use: No evidence that daily social media use correlates with personality traits, motivational states, or well-being
Objective, subjective, and accurate reporting of social media use: No evidence that daily social media use correlates with personality traits, motivational states, or well-being
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10.31234/osf.io/7gscy
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2021-08
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Niklas Johannes;T. Nguyen;N. Weinstein;Andrew K. Przybylski
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作者：
Niklas Johannes;T. Nguyen;N. Weinstein;Andrew K. Przybylski
关于社交媒体使用的影响有一场激烈的辩论，由社交媒体使用的自我报告测量形成。然而，与记录的社交媒体使用措施相比，自我报告的准确性较低。尽管目前还不清楚测量误差对我们的推断有多大的问题，但许多学者呼吁专门使用“客观”测量。但是，如果测量误差不是系统性的，自我报告仍然会提供信息。相比之下，如果存在系统性误差，社交媒体使用与其他变量（包括幸福感）之间的关联可能存在偏见。在这里，我们报告了一项探索性的五天经验抽样研究，96名参与者（435个观察结果），以了解可能与低准确性相关的因素。首先，我们问什么稳定的个体差异与低准确性有关。其次，我们探讨了哪些日常状态与准确性有关。第三，我们探讨了准确性是否与幸福感有关。尽管我们确实发现了高估社交媒体使用的系统性倾向的证据，但无论是个体差异还是日常状态都与这种倾向无关。准确性也与幸福无关。我们的研究结果表明，盲目地要求客观的措施放弃了首先了解社交媒体使用中的测量误差的责任。
There is a lively debate on the effects of social media use, shaped by self-reported measurements of social media use. However, self-reports have been shown to suffer from low accuracy compared to logged measures of social media use. Even though it is unclear how problematic that measurement error is for our inferences, many scholars call for the exclusive use of ‘objective’ measures. But if measurement error is not systematic, self-reports will still be informative. In contrast, if there is systematic error, associations between social media use and other variables, including well-being, are likely biased. Here, we report an exploratory five day experience sampling study among 96 participants (435 observations) to understand factors that could relate to low accuracy. First, we asked what stable individual differences are related to low accuracy. Second, we explored what daily states relate to accuracy. Third, we explored whether accuracy relates to well-being. Although we did find evidence for a systematic tendency to overestimate social media use, neither individual differences nor daily states were related to that tendency. Accuracy was also unrelated to well-being. Our results suggest that blindly calling for objective measures foregoes a responsibility to understand measurement error in social media use first.