Trapped between goal conflict and availability norm? How users’ mobile messaging behavior during task engagement influences negative self-conscious emotions


Halfmann, Annabell ; Meier, Adrian ; Reinecke, Leonard


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000381
URL: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10.1027/1864...
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-644098
Dokumenttyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe: Journal of Media Psychology
Band/Volume: 36
Heft/Issue: 1
Seitenbereich: 45-57
Ort der Veröffentlichung: Göttingen
Verlag: Hogrefe & Huber
ISSN: 1864-1105 , 2151-2388
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: Englisch
Einrichtung: Philosophische Fakultät > Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Naab 2022-)
Bereits vorhandene Lizenz: Creative Commons Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Fachgebiet: 150 Psychologie
Abstract: An increasing number of studies indicate that individuals have difficulties in exerting self-control over media use, such as mobile messaging. Specifically, individuals frequently experience that their messenger use conflicts with primary goals (e.g., work tasks), which may cause negative self-conscious emotions such as guilt. At the same time, not checking and answering messages violates a now widely established availability norm, which may trigger negative self-conscious emotions as well. The current study, therefore, tests how goal conflicts and connection cues interact in influencing users’ negative self-conscious emotions about their messenger usage behavior. Drawing on self-control research in conjunction with self-determination theory and theoretical approaches to social norms, we derived hypotheses on the boundary conditions under which the frequency of messenger use causes negative self-conscious emotions. We thereby significantly extend previous research on the self-regulation of mobile media use, which largely assumes that self-control failure results from users’ intrinsic motivation to experience need satisfaction and pleasure and tends to overlook the fact that mediated communication is often extrinsically motivated due to the availability norm. The hypotheses were tested based on a preregistered laboratory experiment.




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