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This study aims to investigate how different types of digital media affect adolescents’ affective well-being and what role flow plays in this relationship–drawing from a one-week Mobile Experience Sampling (MES) study among 12- to 18-year-old students. This study contributes to understanding adolescents’ digital media use behavior and provides relevant answers to how digital media actually negatively–or even positively–affect their well-being.

This study aims to combine a media psychological and time-economic perspective and investigates how different types of digital media affect adolescents' academic performance by taking time spent on school work as a mediator into account. Moreover, the moderating role of self-control will be examined in the relationship between digital media use, time spent on school work, and academic performance. The data for this study draws from a one-week Mobile Experience Sampling (MES) study among 12- to 18-year-old students.