Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Department of Journalism and Communication Research, Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media, Hanover, Germany.
PLoS One. 2018 Oct 25;13(10):e0205384. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205384. eCollection 2018.
Smartphones and other mobile devices have fundamentally changed patterns of Internet use in everyday life by making online access constantly available. The present paper offers a theoretical explication and empirical assessment of the concept of online vigilance, referring to users' permanent cognitive orientation towards online content and communication as well as their disposition to exploit these options constantly. Based on four studies, a validated and reliable self-report measure of online vigilance was developed. In combination, the results suggest that the Online Vigilance Scale (OVS) shows a stable factor structure in various contexts and user populations and provides future work in communication, psychology, and other social sciences with a new measure of the individual cognitive orientation towards ubiquitous online communication.
智能手机和其他移动设备通过使在线访问随时可用，从根本上改变了日常生活中的互联网使用模式。本文提供了对在线警觉概念的理论说明和经验评估，该概念指的是用户对在线内容和通信的永久认知取向，以及他们不断利用这些选择的倾向。基于四项研究，开发了一种经过验证和可靠的在线警觉自我报告测量工具。综合来看，研究结果表明，在线警觉量表（OVS）在各种情境和用户群体中具有稳定的因素结构，为传播学、心理学和其他社会科学领域的未来研究提供了一种新的、用于衡量个体对普遍存在的在线交流的认知取向的工具。
