Digital hoarding behaviours: Underlying motivations and potential negative consequences

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Highlights:

• Confirmed the existence of ‘digital hoarding’ via qualitative data gathered online.

• Digital hoarding relates to excessive accumulation, deletion difficulty and anxiety.

• Motivations differed between workplace and personal digital information settings.

摘要

•Confirmed the existence of ‘digital hoarding’ via qualitative data gathered online.•Digital hoarding relates to excessive accumulation, deletion difficulty and anxiety.•Motivations differed between workplace and personal digital information settings.

论文关键词:Hoarding behaviours,Digital hoarding,Thematic analysis

论文评审过程:Available online 21 March 2018, Version of Record 28 March 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.03.031