Measuring Online Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of Subjective Wellbeing Measures.

ABSTRACT: With the increasing importance of the internet to our everyday lives, questions are rightly being asked about how its' use affects our wellbeing. It is important to be able to effectively measure the effects of the online context, as it allows us to assess the impact of specific online contexts on wellbeing that may not apply to offline wellbeing. This paper describes a scoping review of English language, peer-reviewed articles published in MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsychInfo between 1st January 2015 and 31st December 2019 to identify what measures are used to assess subjective wellbeing and in particular to identify any measures used in the online context. Two hundred forty studies were identified; 160 studies were removed by abstract screening, and 17 studies were removed by full-text screeni

SUBMITTER: Ong ZX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8006413 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature