Highlights • Examines the impact of 3G on child injuries • Uses hospital-level panel data on injuries with information on how the injury occurred • Finds injuries to children under five increased after cities received 3G • Finds Age-specific injury patterns on playgrounds, from poisoning, and in sports that […]
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Researchers publishing in the April 2017 edition of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research describe a series of experiments in which 520 college students performed tasks requiring focus, attention, and novel problem-solving skills. Some were asked to leave their smartphones in another room. Others were allowed to keep them where they usually do (such as in their pocket or purse). A third group was asked to set their phones on the desk next to them.
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Statistic displays smartphone usage in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2016, by age. In 2016, 93 percent of respondents aged 16 to 24 reported using a smartphone. The percentage of smartphone users aged 45 to 54 increased from 46 percent in 2012 to 86 percent in 2016.
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Jump to Section1. Introduction2. Method 2.1. Participants 2.2. Measures 2.2.1. Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) 2.2.2. Depression, anxiety, stress scale (DASS-21) 2.2.3. Mobile phone addiction index(MPAI) 2.3. Data analyses3. Results 3.1. Participant characteristics 3.2. Descriptive analyses 3.3. Linear regression analyses 3.4. The mediating model4. Discussion 4.1. Limitations and future researchRole […]
Findings – The negative impact of mindlessness on quality of life was greater for younger adults than older adults.
Paper suggests the marketing of mindfulness programs and the use of marketplace apps to combat addiction issues.
Smart phone addiction is a growing problem, and this paper contributes to the understanding of the problem and offers societal solutions for its resolution.
This is the first empirical paper to investigate the connection between a mindless trait and smart phone tendencies and resulting health outcomes
Abstract Smartphones now offer the promise of collecting behavioral data unobtrusively, in situ, as it unfolds in the course of daily life. Data can be collected from the onboard sensors and other phone logs embedded in today’s off-the-shelf smartphone devices. These data permit fine-grained, continuous collection of people’s social […]
Abstract Importance Conversational agents are smartphone-based computer programs designed to respond to users in natural language, thereby mimicking conversations between people. Many people use their smartphones to obtain health information. Objective To describe the responses of 4 widely used conversational agents (Siri [Apple], Google Now, S Voice [Samsung], and […]
Abstract Background Research literature on problematic smartphone use, or smartphone addiction, has proliferated. However, relationships with existing categories of psychopathology are not well defined. We discuss the concept of problematic smartphone use, including possible causal pathways to such use. Method We conducted a systematic review of the relationship between […]
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores. By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases post ban. We use a difference in differences (DID) strategy, exploiting variations in schools’ autonomous decisions to ban these devices, conditioning on a range of student characteristics and prior achievement. Our results indicate that these increases in performance are driven by the lowestachieving students.
This suggests that restricting mobile phone use can be a low-cost policy to reduce educational inequalities.
Younger smartphone owners tend to experience a wider range of emotions vis-à-vis their phone compared with older users — from positive ones like “happy” or “grateful,” to more negative feelings like “distracted” and “angry.”
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