Unplugged: Exploring the costs and benefits of constant connection

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Highlights：

• Adolescents reported the most negative feelings about unplugging from digital media.

• Those scoring high on loneliness reported more negative feelings about unplugging.

• Prior experience unplugging predicted less anxiety about future unplugging.

• Ambivalence about unplugging was due to both losing and gaining close connections.

摘要

•Adolescents reported the most negative feelings about unplugging from digital media.•Those scoring high on loneliness reported more negative feelings about unplugging.•Prior experience unplugging predicted less anxiety about future unplugging.•Ambivalence about unplugging was due to both losing and gaining close connections.

论文关键词：Computer-mediated-communication,Digital natives,Digital immigrants,Internet,Media refusal,Loneliness

论文评审过程：Received 23 March 2016, Revised 12 May 2016, Accepted 26 May 2016, Available online 3 June 2016, Version of Record 3 June 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.078