<p>New parents often experience significant stress as they take
on new roles and responsibilities. Personal informatics practices have increasingly gained
attention as they support various aspects of wellness of individuals by
providing data-driven self-insights. While several PI systems have been
proposed to support mental wellness of individuals not only by providing
self-knowledge but also by helping individuals deal with negative emotions, few
studies investigated how parenting stress can be managed through PI practices. In
this paper, I set out to investigate how new parents make use of flexible
self-tracking practices in the context of stress management. The findings of
this study indicate that flexible self-tracking practices enable individuals to
develop self-knowledge as well as to better communicate with their spouses through
data. Based on the findings, I discuss how the self-tracking experiences for the
mental wellness of parents can be better designed and provide some
considerations for future research and design for parenting stress management.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/8040233 |
| Date | 15 May 2019 |
| Creators | Eunkyung Jo (6633707) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/Investigating_the_Self-tracking_Use_for_Mental_Wellness_of_New_Parents/8040233 |
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