ResearchBox 628: Daily Cognitive Failures and Smartphone Use from a 7-Day Diary Study

A dataset supplementing a 2023 research paper published in the British Journal of Psychology. The data likely contains daily diary entries from a 7-day study examining objective smartphone use metrics and self-reported cognitive failures. Author CHUA YI JING from SMU uploaded the 986.7 KB ZIP file to figshare.

Use Cases

• Modeling within-person associations between smartphone checking frequency and cognitive failures based on the daily diary design.
• Analyzing differential cognitive impacts of smartphone screen time for social versus tools applications as mentioned in the abstract.
• Training multilevel models to separate the effects of smartphone checking from total screen time on daily cognitive performance.

Strengths

• Data is linked to a peer-reviewed publication in the British Journal of Psychology (2023).
• Employs a 7-day daily diary design and objective smartphone measures, addressing limitations of cross-sectional studies and self-report.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 986.7 KB file size indicates a relatively small-scale dataset.

Provenance

Source

Research paper by HARTANTO, Andree, et al. (2023), British Journal of Psychology.

Collection Method

7-day daily diary study with objective smartphone measures.

Time Range

Temporal coverage of the study is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 09:31:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Geographic coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.