A digital detox may not improve wellbeing: social media users who reduced their use for a week saw decreases in positive emotions as well as in negative ones

A digital detox may not improve wellbeing: social media users who reduced their use for a week saw decreases in positive emotions as well as in negative ones

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293467

Article Title: Restricting social networking site use for one week produces varied effects on mood but does not increase explicit or implicit desires to use SNSs: Findings from an ecological momentary assessment study

Author Countries: UK

Funding: This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council through a NINE-DTP doctoral studentship to MW (ES/P000762/1) https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk. The funder played no role in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. There was no additional external funding received for this study.