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The SmartSleep Experiment: Evaluation of changes in night-time smartphone behavior following a mass media citizen science campaign.

PLoS ONE, 2021
The increasing 24-hour smartphone use is of public health concern. This study aims to evaluate whether a massive public focus on sleep and smartphone use generated through a large-scale citizen science project, the SmartSleep Experiment, influence ...
Thea Otte Andersen, Agnete Skovlund Dissing, Tibor V Varga, Naja Hulvej Rod   +3 more
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Smartphones as Polymedia [PDF]

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2014
This article investigates whether smartphones function as environments of polymedia Madianou & Miller, 2012 and assesses their consequences for transnational families. Drawing on research with UK-based Filipino migrants, the article observes that users treat smartphones as integrated environments of communicative opportunities and exploit the ...
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How addicted are newly admitted undergraduate medical students to smartphones?: a cross-sectional study from Chitwan medical college, Nepal

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Increasing smartphone use among adolescents in todays’ world has made this handy device an indispensable electronic tool, however, it comes at a price of problematic overuse or addiction.
Sirisa Karki, Jaya Prasad Singh, Gita Paudel, Sushma Khatiwada, Sameer Timilsina   +4 more
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Heterogeneity of smartphone impact on everyday life and its relationship with personality and psychopathology: A latent profile analysis

Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2023
Background: The relationships between problematic smartphone use and psychological factors have been extensively investigated. However, previous studies generally used variable-centered approaches, which hinder an examination of the heterogeneity of ...
Natale Canale, Luca Pancani, Erika Pivetta, Tania Moretta, Claudia Marino, Giulia Buodo, Alessio Vieno, Mario Dalmaso, Joël Billieux   +8 more
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Smartphone use and its impact on ocular health among university students in Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2021
Background: People are increasingly using mobile phones rather than fixed telephones. Nearly everyone has a mobile phone and the vast majority of these are smartphone.
Lotfi F Issa, Khaled A Alqurashi, Talal Althomali, Talal A Alzahrani, Abdullah S Aljuaid, Tariq M Alharthi   +5 more
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Types of smartphone usage and relations with problematic smartphone behaviors: The role of content consumption vs. social smartphone use

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2017
Little previous research has clarified which types of smartphone use are related to problematic smartphone behaviors. We sampled 309 community participants online to understand the role of content consumption vs.
Jon D. Elhai, Brian J. Hall, Jason C. Levine, Robert D. Dvorak   +3 more
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A Mobile Intervention for Self-Efficacious and Goal-Directed Smartphone Use in the General Population: Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2021
BackgroundPeople spend large parts of their everyday life using their smartphones. Despite various advantages of the smartphone for daily life, problematic forms of smartphone use exist that are related to negative psychological ...
Jan Keller, Christina Roitzheim, Theda Radtke, Konstantin Schenkel, Ralf Schwarzer   +4 more
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Smartphone addiction and its associated factors among freshmen medical students in China: a cross-sectional study

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background With smartphone use widespread worldwide, smartphone addiction is an emerging epidemic. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of smartphone addiction among freshmen medical students and to explore its association with personal factors,
Huan Liu, Zhiqing Zhou, Ergang Zhu, Long Huang, Ming Zhang   +4 more
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Experimentation with MANETs of smartphones [PDF]

2017 Wireless Days, 2017
6 pages, 7 figures, 1 ...
Eduardo Soares, Pedro Brandão, Rui Prior, Ana Aguiar   +3 more
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Association between high adolescent smartphone use and academic impairment, conflicts with family members or friends, and suicide attempts.

PLoS ONE, 2019
This study aims to evaluate the association between smartphone use and suicide attempts, independent of possible confounders, including conflicts with family/friends and poor academic performance due to smartphone use.
Min-Hyuk Kim, Seongho Min, Joung-Sook Ahn, Chisoo An, Jinhee Lee   +4 more
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