Good News! Communication Findings May be Underestimated: Comparing Effect Sizes with Self-Reported and Logged Smartphone Use Data
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Title
Good News! Communication Findings May be Underestimated: Comparing Effect Sizes with Self-Reported and Logged Smartphone Use Data
Subject
Self-Reports, Logged Data, Smartphone Use, Social Capital, Well-being, Problematic Use of Smartphones, Screen Time
Description
Despite long-standing concerns over self-reported measures of media use, media research has relied heavily on self-reported data. This study not only examined discrepancies between survey
and logged smartphone data but assessed whether correlational outcomes using self-reported
measures produce greater or smaller effect sizes compared to outcomes using logged measures.
College students (n ¼ 294) and MTurk workers (n ¼ 291) provided self-reported and logged data of smartphone use over seven days. The correlations we examined involved four psychosocial contexts, including bridging, bonding, well-being, and problematic use of smartphones. The results
showed that the effect sizes of correlations using self-reported data tend to be smaller compared to
those using logged data. We believe that this is a hopeful message to the field. This could mean
that extant survey results have not erroneously inflated communication findings and that communication researchers still have a lot to reveal with further refined measures
and logged smartphone data but assessed whether correlational outcomes using self-reported
measures produce greater or smaller effect sizes compared to outcomes using logged measures.
College students (n ¼ 294) and MTurk workers (n ¼ 291) provided self-reported and logged data of smartphone use over seven days. The correlations we examined involved four psychosocial contexts, including bridging, bonding, well-being, and problematic use of smartphones. The results
showed that the effect sizes of correlations using self-reported data tend to be smaller compared to
those using logged data. We believe that this is a hopeful message to the field. This could mean
that extant survey results have not erroneously inflated communication findings and that communication researchers still have a lot to reveal with further refined measures
Creator
S. Mo Jones-Jang , Yu-Jin Heo, Robert McKeever , Jung-Hyun Kim,Leigh Moscowitz, & David Moscowitz
Source
https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/25/5/346/5896236
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
25 March 2020
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
Coverage
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 25 (2020)
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Citation
S. Mo Jones-Jang , Yu-Jin Heo, Robert McKeever , Jung-Hyun Kim,Leigh Moscowitz, & David Moscowitz, “Good News! Communication Findings May be Underestimated: Comparing Effect Sizes with Self-Reported and Logged Smartphone Use Data,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed October 31, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8666.