Agency over social media use can be enhanced through brief abstinence, but only in users with high cognitive reflection tendencies
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Highlights：
• Agency over social media use is an important predictor of behavioral changes.
• I study the effects of several days of social media abstinence on agency.
• I use a pre(t1) -post(t2), control (no abstinence)-treatment (abstinence), cognitive reflection (low vs. high) design.
• At t1, all participants were invoked to reflect on their agency over social media use.
• An increase in perceived agency was produced only in people who experienced abstinence and were high in cognitive reflection.
摘要
•Agency over social media use is an important predictor of behavioral changes.•I study the effects of several days of social media abstinence on agency.•I use a pre(t1) -post(t2), control (no abstinence)-treatment (abstinence), cognitive reflection (low vs. high) design.•At t1, all participants were invoked to reflect on their agency over social media use.•An increase in perceived agency was produced only in people who experienced abstinence and were high in cognitive reflection.
论文关键词：Social media,Social networking sites,Cognitive reflection,Abstinence,Agency,Perceived behavioral control
论文评审过程：Received 7 April 2020, Revised 25 September 2020, Accepted 29 September 2020, Available online 1 October 2020, Version of Record 6 October 2020.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106590
