Are smartphones and tablets harmful?
- Created by: Meg Fraser
- Created on: 09-01-17 10:58
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- Harmful Effects of Smartphones
- Smartphones
- 66% of UK adults
- Ofcom, 2015
- 90% of 16-24 year olds
- Ofcom, 2015
- 66% of UK adults
- Depression
- The Irish Independent
- Lower moods are at times of over attachment to phone
- Cut off from real world whilst in the online one
- Link between smartphone use and depression
- Saeb et al couldn't infer a causal relationship
- Saeb et al. (2015)
- Examining smart phone use and self-rated depression, not if they are actually depressed
- Depression scale completed at the start of a 2 week period
- Peer reviewed journal
- Difficult to isolate cause and effect
- People could already be depressed which is why they have more phone usage
- The Irish Independent
- Disruption of Sleep
- The Huffington Post
- Looking at screens before sleep might kill you
- Relatively small effect found after a large manipulation
- Sleep deficiency linked to health problems e.g. obesity
- Chronic suppression of melatonin linked to risk of certain cancers
- Looking at screens before sleep might kill you
- Chang et al. (2015)
- Participants read an e-book or a book for 5 days before bed
- 4 hours is unrealistic in real life
- E-book condition had lower levels of melatonin by 5th night
- They took 10 mins longer to fall asleep and had 10 mins less REM sleep
- Smartphonescan disrupt sleep but only after high exposure
- Participants read an e-book or a book for 5 days before bed
- The Huffington Post
- Emotionally stunt young people
- Daily Mail
- Unable to read how people are feeling in their everyday lives
- Emoticons are a poor substitute for human communiation
- Uhls et al. (2014)
- Pre-teens spending 5 days at a camp with no technology, were compared with school-based controls
- Camp group were worse at emotion detection to start with
- Both groups were almost level after the intervention
- Camp group were worse at emotion detection to start with
- Significant improvement post-camp
- More teambuilding or other factors could overshadow IV of technology removal
- Pre-teens spending 5 days at a camp with no technology, were compared with school-based controls
- Daily Mail
- Smartphones
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