Digital well-being theory and research

Digital well-being concerns individuals’ subjective in a social environment where digital media are omnipresent. A general framework is developed to integrate empirical research toward cumulative science of the impacts use on well-being. It describes nature and connections between three pivotal constructs: practices, harms/benefits, Individual’s practices arise within shape socio-technical structural conditions, lead often concomitant harms benefits. These pathways theoretically plausible causal chains that from specific manifestation practice an individual well-being-related outcome with some regularity. Future studies should prioritize descriptive validity formal theory development.