Unravelling Factors Influencing Generation Y's Digital Overuse via Configurational Perspective
[Purpose/Significance]Digital overuse has a negative social impact on user well-being,interpersonal relationships,and work productivity.Exploring the complex mechanisms underlying the antecedents of mobile digital overuse helps users move toward moderate and meaningful human-computer interactions and mitigate the negative effects of digital technology.[Design/Methodology]Based on the framework of digital well-being,this paper constructs a configuration model of mobile digital overuse of Generation Y through exploring the combinations and interplay of personal,device and environment attributes in leading to digital overuse in Generation Y.Empirical data are collected via online survey to Generation Y respondents in China in 2023 with 158 valid responses.The necessary conditions of digital overuse are analyzed by NCA,and the conditional analysis of digital overuse are analyzed by fsQCA.[Findings/Conclusion]Three necessary conditions and four paths leading to digital overuse are found respectively such as digital literacy,perceived usefulness of digital well-being applications,and social digital pressure,and among which gender,fear of missing out,actual digital usage hours,and non-work time electronic communication expectation are the core conditions leading to users'mobile digital overuse.[Originality/Value]This study locates digital overuse behavior from a non-clinical perspective and confirms the asymmetrical nature of mobile digital overuse causality outside of an addiction framework,expanding the understanding of the mechanisms that generate digital overuse.
Digital overuseGeneration YDigital well-beingInfluencing factorsConfiguration perspectiveFuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis(fsQCA)
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