Rotondi, Valentina and Stanca, Luca and Tomasuolo, Miriam (2017) Connecting alone: Smartphone use, quality of social interactions and well-being. Journal of Economic Psychology, 63. pp. 17-26.
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This paper investigates the role played by the smartphone for the quality of social interactions and subjective well-being. We argue that, due to its intrusiveness, the smartphone reduces the quality of face-to-face interactions and, as a consequence, their positive impact on well-being. We test this hypothesis in a large and representative sample of Italian individuals. The results indicate that time spent with friends is worth less, in terms of life satisfaction, for individuals who use the smartphone. This finding is robust to the use of instrumental variables estimation to deal with possible endogeneity. We also show that, consistent with our hypothesis, the positive association between time spent with friends and satisfaction with friends is less strong for individuals who use the smartphone.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Social studies > Economics |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Centro competenze pratiche e politiche sanitarie |
| Depositing User: | Valentina Rotondi |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2020 12:27 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2020 12:27 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/12121 |
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