Table 3 Counts of motivations mentioned per activity type.

From: Everyone does it—differently: A window into emerging adults’ smartphone use

Motivation

Activity type

Social media

Messaging

Browsing

Other

Offline

Boredom (Only)

49 (15)

10 (0)

7 (4)

15 (6)

18 (13)

Habit (Only)

54 (17)

17 (3)

10 (5)

17 (6)

4 (4)

Notification (Only)

16 (1)

59 (21)

3 (1)

15 (7)

n/a

Goal (Only)

34 (6)

67 (21)

32 (27)

46 (26)

33 (28)

  1. Counts represent the number of times a motivation has been mentioned for an activity type (i.e., either in combination with other motivations, or alone). The number of times a motivation was the only motivations mentioned for an activity type is indicated between brackets. Most frequent motivations are indicated in bold.
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