Digital wellbeing applications: Adoption, use and perceived effects

Increasingly, mobile applications, services, and features enable people to monitor regulate their smartphone use in the support of digital wellbeing. Herein we report a mixed-method study involving collection both quantitative qualitative data from student sample conducted with aim investigating, firstly, adoption applications designed wellbeing, secondly, factors that influence continued such and, thirdly, effects users perceive these have on The outcomes this highlight importance individual motivations need understand wellbeing as more than simply an application or tool but, rather subjective consideration place media individual’s life. present provides rich descriptive account temporal variability, person-specificity, device-contingent nature • Applications use. We investigating applications. also investigated needs motivating findings suggest requires reflection commitment.