Problematic smartphone use, nature connectedness, and anxiety
Richardson M, Hussain Z, Griffiths MD
Journal of behavioral addictions · 44 citas
Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Estudio transversal (indexado por PubMed)
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- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
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Publicación
- Publicado
- 2018-02-08 · J Behav Addict · vol. 7 · número 1 · págs. 109–116
- Editorial
- Akadémiai Kiadó
- Citado
- 153 citas · más que el 98% de estudios similares · 9.9× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 57 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista) · CC-BY-NC
- Áreas de investigación
- Behavioral Health and Interventions · Media Influence and Health · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Palabras clave
- smartphone addiction, nature connection, anxiety, diagnostic thresholds, human-nature disconnection
- MeSH
- humans, area under curve, likelihood functions, cross-sectional studies, roc curve, behavior, addictive, anxiety, environment, adult, female, male, self report, smartphone
3 autores
- Miles Richardson🇬🇧 · autor de correspondenciaUniversity of Derby
- Zaheer Hussain🇬🇧University of Derby
- Mark Damian Griffiths🇬🇧Nottingham Trent University
Resumen
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Background Smartphone use has increased greatly at a time when concerns about society's disconnection from nature have also markedly increased. Recent research has also indicated that smartphone use can be problematic for a small minority of individuals. Methods In this study, associations between problematic smartphone use (PSU), nature connectedness, and anxiety were investigated using a cross-sectional design (n = 244). Results Associations between PSU and both nature connectedness and anxiety were confirmed. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to identify threshold values on the Problematic Smartphone Use Scale (PSUS) at which strong associations with anxiety and nature connectedness occur. The area under the curve was calculated and positive likelihood ratios used as a diagnostic parameter to identify optimal cut-off for PSU. These provided good diagnostic ability for nature connectedness, but poor and non-significant results for anxiety. ROC analysis showed the optimal PSUS threshold for high nature connectedness to be 15.5 (sensitivity: 58.3%; specificity: 78.6%) in response to an LR+ of 2.88. Conclusions The results demonstrate the potential utility for the PSUS as a diagnostic tool, with a level of smartphone use that users may perceive as non-problematic being a significant cut-off in terms of achieving beneficial levels of nature connectedness. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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