Playful-consumption experiences and subjective well-being: Children's smartphone usage

Amir Zaib Abbasi; Amjad Shamim; Ding Hooi Ting; Helmut Hlavacs; Umair Rehman

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100390

Playful-consumption experiences and subjective well-being: Children's smartphone usage

Amir Zaib Abbasi^*, Amjad Shamim, Ding Hooi Ting, Helmut Hlavacs, Umair Rehman

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Abstract

The study aims to investigate the factors that contribute to children's subjective well-being. We used playful-consumption experiences in children's smartphone usage to determine their subjective well-being. In total, 210 valid responses were obtained from the parents and analyzed using PLS-SEM in SmartPLS 3.2.8. The results of the measurement model revealed that the investigated constructs were reliable and valid. The findings based on the structural model revealed that children's emotional involvement, enjoyment, and sensory experiences with smartphones positively influenced their subjective well-being. However, children's fantasy, escapism, arousal, and role-projection experiences with smartphones failed to impact children's subjective well-being. The study is among the pioneers to investigate children's subjective well-being from the perspective of smartphone usage and playful-consumption experiences.

Original language	English
Article number	100390
Journal	Entertainment Computing
Volume	36
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100390
State	Published - Jan 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Children
PLS-SEM approach
Playful-consumption experiences
Smartphone usage
Subjective well-being

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Human-Computer Interaction

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