Dataset: screentime

Paper

• Przybylski, A. K., & Weinstein, N. (2017). A Large-Scale Test of the Goldilocks Hypothesis: Quantifying the Relations Between Digital-Screen Use and the Mental Well-Being of Adolescents. Psychological Science, 28(2), 204-215. link

Open data

Data can be downloaded from the Open Science Framework - Download

Dataset includes usable data from 120,115 participants.

Key variables

Variables are described in the paper, analysis files, as well as in the registered analysis plan.

Mental Well-Being

• mwbi: Mental well-being (with imputed values) - from the WEMWBS scale
• Responses to individual questions are also included but not listed here.

Demographics

• male: Is the participant male? (1=male, 0=no)
• minority: Is the participant a minority? (1=yes, 0=no)
• deprived: Does the participant live in a deprived area? (1=yes, 0=no)

Summary screentime

• weekday_screen: Linear digital screen time (week days)
• weekend_screen: Linear digital screen time (weekend days)

Screentime by type

• watch_wd: Linear Streaming/Watching (week days)
• watch_we: Linear StreamIng/Watching (weekend days)
• play_wd: Linear Playing (week days)
• play_we: Linear Playing (weekend days)
• comp_wd: Linear Computing (week days)
• comp_we: Linear Computing (weekend days)
• sp_wd: Linear Smartphone (week days)
• sp_we: Linear Smartphone (weekend days)

Analysis

Download our starter script for working with this dataset in R.