Mariek Vanden Abeele

TL;DR: Two experimental studies investigating the impact of mobile messaging during an offline conversation on relational outcomes found that phone users were perceived as significantly less polite and attentive, and that self-initiated messaging behavior led to more negative impression formation than messaging behavior in response to a notification.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between FOMO and problematic social media use (PSMU) and phubbing behavior in a large-scale survey study among 2663 Flemish teenagers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined key aspects of peer influence and the peer context in relation to two such practices: sexting and mobile porn use, and found that those who were more popular with the other sex and with a greater need for popularity were more likely to report both behaviors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a theoretical model of digital wellbeing that accounts for the dynamic and complex nature of our relationship to mobile connectivity, thereby overcoming conceptual and methodological limitations associated with existing approaches, and consider digital wellbeing as an experiential state of optimal balance between connectivity and disconnectivity that is contingent upon a constellation of person-, device, and context-specific factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared self-reported mobile phone use to network provider data, and examined the observed discrepancies between both data sources in a convenience sample of 466 Flemish mobile phone users (18-65 years).