341_Reading and Listening Question Aid_Problematic_Tech_Use

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Reading and Listening Question Aid: 341 Problematic Tech Use Use the following questions to help focus your reading for the weekly chapter(s)/article(s) and listening for the weekly video lectures. This document is an aid to help with focusing your studying. ** It is not a required to submit the answers to these questions. Please come to office hours or ask for clarification during class on any of the items below. **Note: Many of the final exam questions will come from these weekly reading and listening question aids. From Reading: 1. What kinds of behaviors does problematic internet use involve? Compulsive smartphone checking, digital distraction, social networking habits, compulsive gaming, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and online infidelity, interpersonal aggression, unwanted pursuit, violating the rules of close relationships, and using communication devices in ways that diminish our in-person conversation partners. 2. Page 4 discusses two “dark side” approaches to understanding what constitutes problematic use. Describe the dimensions of each approach. Both perspectives emphasize the importance of considering how interpersonal behavior can be destructive, immortal, and hurtful to others. From the dark side perspective, problematic behaviors are arrayed along two dimensions: moral-immoral and functional- dysfunctional. For ex: cyberbullying is immoral, functional but checking phone during dinner is moral, dysfunctional. For the digital stressors’ perspective, the two are hostility-oriented stressors such as online harassment, bullying, and aggression. Second, adolescents described problems navigating close relationships as sources of socio-digital stress. 3. Describe the approach that researchers took early on (i.e., 1990s) when evaluating problematic use? It began with fears that people would be so drawn to it that they would neglect their offline social ties. They also believed it was not a good replacement for offline communication. Studies about interpersonal displacement. 4. What are the three themes that help organize and summarize the last 20 years of research on problematic use? Briefly explain each. 1. Research demonstrates that problematic outcomes arise from the compulsive or habitual aspect of online behavior, rather than due to

excessive activity or overuse. It is the habit strength, not the time engaged, that seems to create problems. 2. Problematic online habits are motivated by the desire for mood alteration. To alleviate dysphoric moods, loneliness, and depression. 3. Problematic online habits are related to online social behavior and offline interpersonal problems. 5. What is the interpersonal and relational resource deficit framework? Explain. Problematic online habit strength is often correlated with lower social skills and other relational resource deficits. It suggests that people use online apps to compensate for offline social difficulties and relational problems, and, over time, the online activity can become habituated. 6. How does an individual’s emotional intelligence shape their online use? Low emotional intelligence levels predict stronger online habits and greater preference for online social interaction. Others have linked lower emotional intelligence with problematic online gaming habits, social networking habits and smartphone habit strength. 7. Briefly describe how attachment theory helps inform our understanding of technology use? Problematic social networking habits may develop when people rely too heavily on interpersonal technology to fulfill attachment needs. People with greater needs for closeness or distance may initially turn to online to meet those needs and over time, some may develop habitual use. For insecurely attached people, online habits may develop from the reward outcomes associated with social technologies that help regulate their insecurity. Social networking also offers interpersonal affordances that appeal to those who have a greater need for emotional distance. 8. What is fear of missing out? How does it differ from attachment theory and tech use? It is a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent and is characterized by the desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing. Attachment security primarily pertains to intimate relationships, FOMO involves one’s broader peer network rather than one’s closest relationships. 9. What is the poor get poorer hypothesis? Individuals with little offline social capital experience worse outcomes from the same online activities that those with greater social resources benefit from and individuals with low self-esteem recognize but no do reap the benefits of self-disclosure on facebook. 10. What are the effects of problematic tech use on romantic relationships?

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