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2021-06-08Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.25646/8649
“How Come You Don’t Call Me?” Smartphone Communication App Usage as an Indicator of Loneliness and Social Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan during the COVID-19 Pandemic
dc.contributor.authorWetzel, Britta
dc.contributor.authorPryss, Rüdiger
dc.contributor.authorBaumeister, Harald
dc.contributor.authorEdler, Johanna-Sophie
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, Ana Sofia Oliveira
dc.contributor.authorCohrdes, Caroline
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-14T09:40:44Z
dc.date.available2021-06-14T09:40:44Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-08none
dc.identifier.other10.3390/ijerph18126212
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/8370
dc.description.abstractLoneliness and lack of social well-being are associated with adverse health outcomes and have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Smartphone communication data have been suggested to help monitor loneliness, but this requires further evidence. We investigated the informative value of smartphone communication app data for predicting subjective loneliness and social well-being in a sample of 364 participants ranging from 18 to 78 years of age (52.2% female; mean age = 42.54, SD = 13.22) derived from the CORONA HEALTH APP study from July to December 2020 in Germany. The participants experienced relatively high levels of loneliness and low social well-being during the time period characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from positive associations with phone call use times, smartphone communication app use was associated with social well-being and loneliness only when considering the age of participants. Younger participants with higher use times tended to report less social well-being and higher loneliness, while the opposite association was found for older adults. Thus, the informative value of smartphone communication use time was rather small and became evident only in consideration of age. The results highlight the need for further investigations and the need to address several limitations in order to draw conclusions at the population level.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut
dc.rights(CC BY 3.0 DE) Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschlandger
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/
dc.subjectlonelinesseng
dc.subjectsocial well-beingeng
dc.subjectpassive dataeng
dc.subjectappeng
dc.subjectsmartphone communicationeng
dc.subjectCOVID-19eng
dc.subjectsocial media useeng
dc.subjectage differenceeng
dc.subjectpublic mental healtheng
dc.subjectmental health monitoringeng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin und Gesundheitnone
dc.title“How Come You Don’t Call Me?” Smartphone Communication App Usage as an Indicator of Loneliness and Social Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan during the COVID-19 Pandemicnone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:0257-176904/8370-6
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/8649
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.container-titleInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthnone
local.edoc.container-issn1660-4601none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/12/6212none
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameMDPInone
local.edoc.container-volume18none
local.edoc.container-issue12none
local.edoc.rki-departmentEpidemiologie und Gesundheitsmonitoringnone
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone

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