Achieving Digital Wellbeing Through Digital Self-Control Tools: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Public media and researchers in different areas have recently focused on perhaps unexpected problems that derive from an excessive frequent use of technology, giving rise to a new kind psychological “digital” wellbeing. Such novel pressing topic has fostered, both the academia industry, emergence variety digital self-control tools allowing users self-regulate their technology through interventions like timers lock-out mechanisms. While these emerging technologies for behavior change hold great promise support people’s wellbeing, we still limited understanding real effectiveness, as well how best design evaluate them. Aiming guide future research this important domain, article presents systematic review meta-analysis current work self-control. We surface motivations, strategies, choices, challenges characterize design, development, evaluation tools. Furthermore, estimate overall effect size reducing (unwanted) meta-analysis. By discussing our findings, provide insights (i) overcome perspective exclusively focuses overuse self-monitoring tools, (ii) long-term studies standardized measures, (iii) bring ethics wellbeing discourse deal with business model contemporary tech companies.