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

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 i...

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Main Authors: Johannes, N, Nguyen, T-v, Weinstein, N, Przybylski, AK
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Psychological Association 2021