The smartphone is hardly thinking out of daily use. But how much on-screen time is good for us? That found researchers now.
- Smartphone use studied: Respondents were asked after daily use of the mobile phone
- Smartphone usage examines: Effects on well-being with less smartphone use
Bochum (DPA) – For your own well-being, a temporary total talent on the smartphone and a decrease in daily use by one hour already have a positive impact. These are the results of the study, in which 620 adults were interviewed in the average age between 20 and 30 years. The analysis was carried out by researchers of the Ruhr University Bochum.
Smartphone use studied: Respondents were asked after daily use of the mobile phone
A research team wanted to know, “Whether our life without a smartphone is actually better or rather: how much less smartphone on us is good for us”. The investigation had previously been published in the psychological magazine “Journal of Experimental Psychology”.
Starting point of the questionnaire: The smartphone is used according to university information in the population on average more than three hours a day. Studies involved that with intensive use of decreasing physical activity, neck pain, limited performance or addictive behavior (more to digital at research).
Smartphone usage examines: Effects on well-being with less smartphone use
The participants – all with smartphone useful life of at least 75 minutes daily – had been divided into three groups of around 200 test persons each. A group renounced a week completely on the phone, the second lowered the daily use for an hour, the third changed nothing. Directly following the measure as well as a month and once again four months later, the research team interviewed all participants to their lifestyle and their condition.
Result of the study, which is not representative: both the complete waiver and the one-hour reduction had positive effects on lifestyle and well-being. In the group with a decreased use period, these positive effects were even longer than in the abstinence group. Research Manager Julia Brailovskaia recognized by the Research and Treatment Center for Mental Health: “In the long term, it was best that the use had reduced.”