Description

Smartphones are becoming increasinglyimportant in our lives and accompany us almost everywhere. It hasthus become possible to ask the device for directions, check email,spend time playing video games or simply surf the Internet.

In the following study we would like to scientifically assess, howoften people are actually using their mobile phones. When do we goonline for the first time a day, when do we first check for newemail and when do we receive the first call? Additionally, it isthe aim of the study to find out how differences in smartphoneusage can be explained. In this context we would like to take intoaccount classic self-report inventories from personality psychology(e.g. recording the self-perceived anxiety or sociability). Morespecifically, the phone shall ask questions from short versions ofscales for personality assessment from personality psychology (e.g."I am anxious" with possible answers ranging from "agree strongly"to "disagree strongly").
These single items will appear on the screen to very manageableextent (not more than one item per day). You can, of course,dismiss the request.

Because your smartphone contains very private information, we wouldlike to explain, what information the software stores and which itdoes not. It does not record any personal content from emails, SMSor chat messengers (e.g. WhatsApp). Of course it does not record,what internet addresses you visit or with whom you are talking overthe phone. We are interested in quantitative variables - how longare you online per day, when do you look on the phone for the lasttime in the evening and how big is your social network (how manydifferent phone numbers are there, but not what phone numbers arein your phone book)? Quantitatively, this means further, thatcontent or email with regard to the size of your vocabulary can beassessed and be sent to our servers (e.g. vocabulary is made up of3430 words). Again: it is not possible to gain any knowledge aboutthe original email's content from this information. Subsequently,we elucidate what information we record, what the study's designlooks like and how we secure your data.

Please refer to the details of this onhttps://menthal.iai.uni-bonn.de/terms .