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Curtailing smartphone use: a field experiment evaluating two interventions.
- Source :
- Behaviour & Information Technology; Dec2022, Vol. 41 Issue 16, p3598-3616, 19p, 1 Color Photograph, 4 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This field experiment aimed to address the issue of problematic smartphone usage (PSU) by examining the effectiveness of two frequently advised techniques to deal with PSU: moving problematic applications to a different page of the phone and changing the phone into greyscale. For one week, 97 student participants used their smartphone under one of the following three conditions: move app, greyscale, or control condition. Compared to the week before the intervention, participants significantly reduced their objective smartphone usage, but their self-reported PSU increased. These effects also emerged in the control group, which might have been due to heightened awareness of the participants of their smartphone usage. A major implication of the study is the need of using multiple outcome measures to understand the complex relationship between perceptions and behaviour. This study could be used as a blueprint for future research examining the effectiveness of interventions in the field of PSU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COLLEGE students
FIELD research
WELL-being
ANALYSIS of variance
RESEARCH methodology
SATISFACTION
INTERVIEWING
TREATMENT effectiveness
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
PRE-tests & post-tests
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
CRONBACH'S alpha
QUESTIONNAIRES
STATISTICAL sampling
STUDENT attitudes
COMPULSIVE behavior
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0144929X
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Behaviour & Information Technology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161082324
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2021.2007284