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Day-to-day associations between adolescents’ smartphone use before sleep and sleep outcomes

TKACZYK, Michal, David LACKO and Martin TANCOŠ

Basic information

Original name

Day-to-day associations between adolescents’ smartphone use before sleep and sleep outcomes

Edition

ECREA 2022 9th European Communication Conference, 2022

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50800 5.8 Media and communications

Country of publisher

Denmark

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

smartphone use, sleep outcomes, adolescents
Změněno: 22/10/2022 14:03, Mgr. et Mgr. Michal Tkaczyk, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The study examined between- and within-person associations for adolescents' smartphone use and multiple sleep outcomes: sleep onset time, sleep onset latency, sleep duration, subjective sleep quality, and subjective daily sleepiness.The participants were 201 Czech adolescents (aged 13-17) who daily reported their sleep outcomes, daily stressors, and other media use for 14 consecutive days via a custom-made research app on their smartphones. The app also collected logs of the participants' smartphone use. Study found that interindividual differences within the average volume of smartphone use before sleep were not associated with differences in sleep outcomes. Study found that when adolescents used smartphones before sleep for longer than usual, they went to sleep earlier and slept longer. However, these two associations were weak. No other sleep outcomes were affected by the increased use of a smartphone before sleep on a given day. Study found no interaction effects for age, gender, insomnia symptoms, media use, or daily stressors. However, the association between smartphone use and earlier sleep onset time was stronger on nights before a non-school day. Findings suggest that the link between smartphone use and adolescent sleep is more complex, and not as detrimental, as claimed in some earlier studies.

Links

GX19-27828X, research and development project
Name: Pohled do budoucnosti: Porozumění vlivu technologií na “well-being” adolescentů (Acronym: FUTURE)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation